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Ibn al-Nafis al-Ash’ari was an Arab polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He is known for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of blood. The work of Ibn al-Nafis regarding right-sided (pulmonary) circulation pre-dates the later work of William Harvey’s De motu cordis. … Read more