At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
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
Abu Sa'id Ubayd Allah ibn Jibril ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Bakhtishu', a physician, researcher and historian of medicine, of the Bakhtishu' family of physicians 1.
Learning
The encyclopedia describes him as a scholar of the knowledge of the Christians and their sects, and gives his death as 451 AH 1.
People and things also explored
Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
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. “Ubayd Allah ibn Jibril”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ubayd-allah-ibn-jibril/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.