# Al-Zahrawi (@al-zahrawi)

Al-Zahrawi was a Andalusi physician and surgical author. Al-Zahrawi's medical encyclopedia culminated in an influential surgical treatise describing procedures, cautery and instruments.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Al-Zahrawi's public record._

## Topics

- [Evidence and Attribution](/@al-zahrawi/evidence-and-attribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Al-Tasrif](/@al-zahrawi/al-tasrif.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Surgical Illustration](/@al-zahrawi/surgical-illustration.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/surgery.html
- blog: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Abu-al-Qasim
- blog: https://www.qdl.qa/en/al-zahrawi-and-surgery

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "al-zahrawi", "question": "…"}`.