This book tells the life story of the surgeon-scientist Khalaf ibn Abbas al-Zahrawi, the father of surgery for all ages. He lived in the tenth century CE and practiced surgery with his own hands instead of leaving it to barbers, becoming the first Arab surgeon. Al-Zahrawi discovered new surgical methods, taught the secrets of surgery to the physicians of Europe in his time, and pioneered the system of nursing. He also invented surgical instruments made of stainless iron instead of gold and silver, and wrote the first illustrated medical encyclopedia. The “Scientists of Islamic Civilization” series presents the biographies of outstanding Arab and Muslim scholars and their contributions to human civilization.