At a glance
- Roles
- Physician
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
History-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- PhysicianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Bukhtishu ibn Jibril, a physician of the Bukhtishu medical family in the Abbasid age. He was close to the caliph al-Muhtadi, and left a son, Ubayd Allah. 1
Ibn al-Nadim says that his kunya was Abu Jibril, and that he was well known and eminent with kings. He served al-Rashid, al-Amin, al-Ma'mun, al-Mu'tasim, al-Wathiq and al-Mutawakkil, and earned by medicine what no one like him had earned. The caliphs trusted him with their mothers of children. He wrote the book "al-Tadhkira" for his son Jibril. 2
He died around 869 CE, according to the "Encyclopaedia of Notable Scholars and Men of Letters". 1
People and things also explored
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim , p.413
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi
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islam.museum contributors. “Bukhtishu ibn Jibril”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/bukhtishu-ibn-jibril/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.