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Ibn Jazla

ابن جزلة

c. 1090 CE · 483 AH

Abu Ali Yahya b. Isa b. Jazla of Asyut — physician who converted from Christianity and wrote a refutation of Christians; student of Ibn Ridwan; authored Taqwim al-Abdan, Minhaj al-Bayan and a defence of medicine for al-Muqtadi 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abu al-Fath Abd al-Baqi al-Haddad al-Hanbali al-Faradi · Abd al-Malik Ibn Attash · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni · Abu al-Hasan al-Ibadi

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Abu 'Ali Yahya ibn 'Isa ibn Jazla the physician, of Asyut in Upper Egypt; a Christian who converted and wrote an epistle refuting the Christians and proving Islam the true religion — the cause of his conversion was keeping company with Abu 'Ali ibn al-Walid until God guided him by his hand; he trained under Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali ibn Ridwan and practised medicine with him. 1

His works

He composed for the imam al-Muqtadi bi-amr Allah the Taqwim al-Abdan, the Minhaj al-Bayan on what man uses, the Ishara on abridged expression, and an epistle praising medicine and its accord with the shari'a. 1

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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