Author of the earliest medieval Arabic treatise intended solely for surgeons.

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The physician, therapist, and surgeon, Ibn al-Quff (1233-1286) : an introductory survey of his time, life , and works / by Sami Khalaf Hamarneh.

An Arab pioneer of preventive medicine : Ibn al-Quff / Sami Hamarneh.

Kitāb al-ʻumda fi l-ǧirāḥa / Amīn al-Dawla Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff.

Anatomie und Chirurgie des Schädels : insbesondere der Hals-, Nassen- und Ohrenkrankheiten nach Ibn al-Quff / Von Otto Spies u. Horst Müller-Bütow.

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Ibn al-Quff

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Kitāb al-ʻumda fi l-ǧirāḥa / Amīn al-Dawla Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff.

Anatomie und Chirurgie des Schädels : insbesondere der Hals-, Nassen- und Ohrenkrankheiten nach Ibn al-Quff / Von Otto Spies u. Horst Müller-Bütow.