Dawud Ibn Umar Al-Antaki also known as Dawud Al-Antaki (Arabic: داؤود الأنطاكي) was a blind Muslim physician and pharmacist active in Cairo.
[1] He lived most of his life in Antioch before made a pilgrimage to Mecca and took advantage of the trip to visited Damascus and Cairo.
After the heyday of medicine in the medieval Islamic world, Daud Al-Antaki was one of three great names in the field of Arabic medicine in the 14th and 15th centuries CE, alongside the Iraqi scholar Yusuf Ibn Ismail Al-Kutbi and the Ottoman physician Khadir Ibn Ali Hajji Basa.
[2] Tadhkir al-Qabb is a three-part medical book dealing with herbal medicines and includes descriptions of over 3,000 medicinal and aromatic plants.
[3][4] Daud al-Antaki also wrote The Book of Precious Kohl for the Evacuation of the President's Eyes an explanation of Ibn Sina's poem.