Ibn Hubal

Ibn Hubal ,ابن هبل (full name: Muhadhdhab al-Din ‘Ali ibn Ahmad, al-Baghdadi al-Khilati), (Arabic, مهذب الدين علي بن أحمد البغدادي الختالي ) was an Arab physician and scientist known primarily for his medical compendium titled Kitab al-Mukhtarat fi al-tibb, "The Book of Selections in Medicine." It was written in 1165 in Mosul, north of Baghdad, where Ibn Hubal spent most of his life. The popular medical encyclopedia is highly dependent upon the Qanun of Ibn Sina (Avicenna), with occasional passages transcribed verbatim.

The chapters on kidney and bladder stones has been edited and translated into French by P. de Koning, Traité sur le calcul dans les reins et dans la vessie par Other chapters have been translated by Dorothee Thies, Die Lehren der arabischen Mediziner Tabari und Ibn Hubal über Herz, Lunge, Gallenblase und Milz [Beiträge zur Sprachen und Kulturgeschichte des Orients, Heft 20] (Bonn: Verlag für Orientkunde Dr. H. Vorndran, 1968), pp. 73-133. He died in 1213.