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Medieval Persian physician (980–1058)
Abdullah Ibn Bakhtishu with a student.
Abu Sa'id 'Ubayd Allah ibn Bakhtishu (980–1058), also spelled Bukhtishu , Bukhtyashu , and Bakhtshooa in many texts, was an 11th-century
Syriac
physician , descendant of
Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori . He spoke the
Syriac language .
[1] He lived in
Mayyāfāriqīn .
[2]
He was the last representative of the Bukhtyashu family of
Nestorian Christian physicians, who emigrated from
Jundishapur to
Baghdad in 765.
[2] He authored Reminder of the Homestayer, which deals with the philosophical terms used in medicine, and a treatise on lovesickness. He also authored the
Book on the Characteristics of Animals and Their Properties and the Usefulness of Their Organs , which covers works by Aristotle, Hippocrates,
Galen ,
Dioscorides , and ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī, as well as
Manafi' al-Hayawan (Ms M. 500) .
[2]
Notes
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"Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts: Greek Influences" . Nlm.nih.gov. 1998-04-15. Retrieved 2010-02-08 .
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a
b
c Walker-Meikle, Kathleen (2023), Stathakopoulos, Dionysios; Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros (eds.),
"De sexaginta animalibus: A Latin Translation of an Arabic Manāfiʿ al-ḥayawān Text on the Pharmaceutical Properties of Animals" , Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge , Cambridge University Press, pp. 104–129,
doi :
10.1017/9781009389792.004 ,
ISBN
978-1-009-38979-2
References
Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrāʼīl.; Kahl, Oliver; Bos, Gerrit (2018). ʻUbaidallah Ibn Buhtišuʻ on Apparent Death: The Kitab Taḥrīm Dafn Al-aḥyāʼ, Arabic Edition and English Translation . Boston.
ISBN
978-90-04-37231-3 .
OCLC
1040081222 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link )
C. Brocklmann: Encyclopaedia of Islam (t. 1, 601, 1911).
See also
Physicians
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