Jabril ibn Bukhtishu
Jabril ibn Bukhtishu, (Jibril ibn Bakhtisha) also written as Bakhtyshu, was an 8th-9th century physician from the Bukhtishu family of Assyrian Nestorian physicians from the Academy of Gundishapur. He was a Nestorian[1] and spoke the Syriac language.[2]
Grandson of , he lived in the second half of the eighth century.
He was physician to Ja'far the Barmakide, then in 805-6 to Harun al-Rashid and later to al-Ma'mun; died in 828-29; buried in the monastery of St. Sergios in al-Madain (Ctesiphon).
He wrote various medical works and exerted much influence upon the progress of science in Baghdad. Works attributed to him include Kitāb ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān wa-khawāṣṣihā wa-manāfi‘ a‘ḍā’ihā ('Book of the Characteristics of Animals and Their Properties and the Usefulness of Their Organs'), written for Nasir al-Dawla; Risāla fī al-ṭibb wa-al-aḥdāth al-nafsāniyya ('Treatise on Medicine and Psychological Phenomena'); and Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān.[3] He was a member of the Bakhtyashu family. He took pains to obtain Greek medical manuscripts and patronized the translators.
See also[]
- List of Persian scientists
- The Bukhtishu family.
- Bukhtishu, Abdollah ibn.
- Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu
Further reading[]
- F. Wüstenfeld, Arabische Aerzte (15-16, 1840).
- Lucien Leclerc, Médecine arabe (vol. 1, 99-102, 1876).
- , New Light on Hunain ibn Ishaq (Isis, VIII, 717, 1926).
References[]
- ^ Anna Contadini, 'A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān (British Library, or. 2784)', Muqarnas, 20 (2003), 17-33 (p. 17), https://www.jstor.org/stable/1523325.
- ^ Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts, U.S. National Library of Medicine
- ^ Anna Contadini, 'A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān (British Library, or. 2784)', Muqarnas, 20 (2003), 17-33 (pp. 17-18), https://www.jstor.org/stable/1523325.
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