At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- PhysicianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Abi Khalid Ahmad ibn al-Jazzar al-Qayrawani, a physician from Kairouan. The encyclopaedia counts him among the great physicians of his time, and he wrote on medicine and its drugs. He was born in 285 AH (898 CE) and died in 369 AH (980 CE). 1
People and things also explored
The 'Adudi Bimaristan· The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit· Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs)· Anbik (the alembic; head of the distilling apparatus)· Abu Abdallah al-Natili· Ahmad al-Damanhuri· al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad· Al-Mudhaffar al-Himsi
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Jazzar, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-jazzar-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.