Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Mutatabbib

محمد بن إبراهيم المتطبب

1620 CE · 1029 AH

Personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Ahmad I, who ascended the throne in 1603.

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Roles
Physician
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Abd al-Haqq Amanat Khan · Abd al-Rauf al-Sinkili · Abdallah al-Ghalib II · Abu al-Mafakhir of Banten · Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Ahdal

Medicine

Place in the story

  • PhysicianTradition

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Overview

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Mutatabbib, private physician to the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I, who ascended the throne in 1603 CE. He died in 1029 AH (1620 CE). 1

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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

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Mutatabbib”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-ibn-ibrahim-al-mutatabbib/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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