Al-Muntakhab fi ʿIlm al-ʿAyn wa-ʿIlalihah wa-Mudāwātihā bil-Adwiyah wa al-Ḥadid ( كتاب المنتخب في علم العين و عللها و مداواتها بالأدوية و الحديد ) (The Selected Book of Diseases of the Eye and its Treatment with Medicaments and Surgery) was a book written by the famous 11th century ophthalmologist, ʿAmmār al Mūṣlī, ( عمار بن علي الموصلي, fl.1020 CE). The work included a number of detailed surgical case reports for the patients he had operated on for cataracts.

• Abdel-Halim, pp.177-178
• Mittwoch, Eugen (published online 2012) ‘ʿAmmār al-Mawṣilī’. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, Eds. P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs (http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0628)

For more on ophthalmology and Ammār al Mūṣlī, see:

• Aileen. R. Das (Ch 10 in Pormann, pp. 104-111), pp. 107-110 for ʿAmmār al Mūṣlī

For more on Islamic ophthalmology and optics more generally, see:

• Aileen Das (Ch10 in Pormann, pp.104-111)
• M. Zafer Wafai (2016), Ophthalmologists of the Medieval Islamic World (https://muslimheritage.com/ophthalmologists/)
• M. Zafer Wafai (2021), A Rare and Magnificent Manuscript on Ophthalmology (Al-Kafi fi al Kuhl), (https://muslimheritage.com/manuscript-on-ophthalmology/)
• Ibrahim Shaikh (2001), Eye Specialists in Islamic Cultures (https://muslimheritage.com/eye-specialists-in-islamic-cultures/)
• Charles G. Gross (2012), Ibn Al-Haytham on Eye and Brain, Vision and Perception (https://muslimheritage.com/ibn-haytham-eye-brain/)
• Media Desk (2017), The work of the ‘father of optics’ Alhazen | Primary Science – SciTube (https://muslimheritage.com/work-of-father-of-optics-alhazen-scitube/)
• Wafai, Muhammad Zafir (ed.), Frederick C. Blodi, Wilfried J. Rademaker, Gisela Rademaker and Kenneth Wildman (trans.) (1993) The Arabian Ophthalmologists, Compiled from original texts by J. Hirschberg, J. Lippert and E. Mittwoch and translated into English, Riyadh [Available at: https://archive.org/details/the-arabian-opthalmologists/mode/2up]