At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · Astronomer · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Anatolia
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
MedicineAstronomy and timekeeping
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Jamal al-Din Abu al-Fadl Habash ibn Ibrahim al-Tiflisi, a physician, astrologer, philologist and man of letters from Tiflis. He lived in the days of the Seljuks and served them in medicine and astronomy. Most of his works are in Persian. He died in 629 AH (1231 CE). 1
People and things also explored
al-Ashraf Umar ibn al-Muzaffar, al-Ghassani· The 'Adudi Bimaristan· The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit· Sharaf al-Dawla's observatory at Baghdad· Qibla-finding by stars, winds, mountains and rivers· Sizes of the heavenly bodies· Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs)· Distances of the heavenly bodies from the Earth
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.527
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Tiflisi Jamal al-Din Abu al-Fadl Habash ibn Ibrahim”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-tiflisi-jamal-al-din-abu-al-fadl-habash/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.