Medicine
Family: Knowledge: science, medicine, astronomy and the rest · 35 entries
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Ibn al-Jazzar, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim
898 CE · 285 AHA physician from Kairouan, one of the leading physicians of his time, who wrote on medicine and drugs.Ziyad ibn Khalfun
A physician of Kairouan, a client of the Aghlabids, about whose origins little is known.Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
c. 980 CE · c. 370 AHPersian polymath (c. 980–1037) whose Canon of Medicine and Book of Healing shaped medicine and philosophy across the Islamic world and Europe for centuries.Ibn al-Baddhukh, Umar ibn Ali
A Moroccan physician and pharmacist, expert in simple and compound drugs and their preparation, who also wrote poetry.al-Khunaji Afdal al-Din Muhammad
1194 CE · 590 AHScholar of medicine, philosophy and logic of Persian origin; born 590 AH (1194 CE) and died 646 AH (1248 CE).Al-Mudhaffar al-Himsi
A physician and man of letters born in Homs.al-Tiflisi Jamal al-Din Abu al-Fadl Habash ibn Ibrahim
Physician, astrologer, lexicographer and man of letters from Tiflis, who served the Seljuks in medicine and astronomy and wrote mostly in Persian; died 629 AH (1231 CE).Ibn al-Bitar Abu Muhammad Abd Allah ibn Ahmad
Scholar of plants, drugs and medicine from Malaga in al-Andalus; died 646 AH (1248 CE).Ibn al-Hashsha Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Physician who lived in Tunis in the first half of the seventh century AH; died 647 AH (1249 CE).Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Andarshi al-Balansi
The jurist and physician Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Andarshi al-Balansi, who died at Tunis in 674 AH and wrote a versified medical poem and a verse work on simple drugs.Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Ansari al-Mursi
1278 CE · 677 AHThe grammarian, reciter and physician Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Yahya al-Ansari al-Mursi, from Murcia and active at Granada under the Nasrid state; the sources on him are few.Salah al-Din ibn Yusuf al-Kahhal
A physician from the last generation of Arab physicians, raised in Aleppo.Ibn Hudhayl, Yahya ibn Ahmad
A physician and mathematician from Granada, linked to the Tujib tribe.Ilyas al-Qarmani, physician of Damascus
Ilyas al-Qarmani — Damascus physician 'imam of his age'; versified the materia medica as 'Nazrat al-A'yan fi Ma'rifat al-Adwiya,' treated people without fee, and inveighed against excess in food and drink; killed in Dhu'l-Qa'da 982.Dawud al-Antaki
An Arab physician from Antioch, nicknamed al-Darir because he was blind. He lived in the tenth century AH. Ibn al-'Imad gives his obituary among the late tenth-century deaths in Shadharat al-Dhahab.Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Mutatabbib
Personal physician to the Ottoman sultan Ahmad I, who ascended the throne in 1603.Abu Abdallah al-Natili
Draft card for Abu Abdallah al-Natili, the early eleventh-century philosopher and physician; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.Ahmad al-Damanhuri
Draft card for Ahmad al-Damanhuri, the eighteenth-century Grand Imam of al-Azhar, physician and jurist, d. 1778; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.al-Nadir ibn al-Harith al-Thaqafi
A prominent Thaqafi physician-nobleman and son of the famed physician al-Harith ibn Kalada; allied to Banu Abd al-Dar, he embraced Islam and was granted one hundred camels by the Prophet at al-Ji'rana among al-Mu'allafa Qulubuhum.Hayatizade Mehmed Emin Efendi
Draft card for Hayatizade Mehmed Emin Efendi, the Ottoman jurist and physician, d. 1747; the source entry is not yet checked on the page.Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi
Draft card for Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, the twelfth-century emir and personal physician of Saladin, d. 1202; the source entry is not yet checked on the page.Ibn Bariq Abu Hafs
Andalusi physician of the fourth century AH who studied medicine in Qayrawan with Ibn al-Jazzar and returned to al-Andalus with his teacher's book on medicine and remedies.Ku'ayba bint Sa'd
An Aslami Companion among the women nurses who tended the wounded Muslims after the Battle of Uhud; she treated a man struck by an arrow in the arm until he recovered.Mansur ibn Ilyas
Draft card for Mansur ibn Ilyas, the fifteenth-century Persian physician author of Tashrih-i Badan-i Insan, the first coloured anatomical atlas; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.Rufayda al-Aslamiyya
An Ansari Companion of Banu Aslam remembered for her medical tent pitched in the Prophet's mosque; the wounded Sa'd ibn Mu'adh was placed under her care after he was struck by an arrow at the Battle of the Trench, and she nursed the sick and injured from her own means.Salma al-Qabila
A Companion, wife of Abu Rafi' the Prophet's freedman; she was the household midwife who delivered Fatima's children — al-Hasan, al-Husayn, Zaynab and Umm Kulthum — having earlier served Khadija, and lived on after the Prophet's death.Sharaf al-Din ibn al-Rahbi
Draft card for Sharaf al-Din ibn al-Rahbi, the thirteenth-century physician and literary scholar, d. 1268; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.al-Ashraf Umar ibn al-Muzaffar, al-Ghassani
A Yemeni ruler of the Rasulid line who wrote on the astrolabe, veterinary medicine and simple drugs, drawing on Ibn al-Baytar and al-Zahrawi.
Building
The 'Adudi Bimaristan
The 'Adudi Bimaristan of Baghdad, the hospital 'Adud al-Dawla built: opened at the start of Rabi' II 372 with everything spent that could perfect it — physicians gathered in it, medicines, wardens, servants, vessels and clothes, all that the sick need — and the poor were given the clothes and vessels that came out of it.The Mu'ayyadi Bimaristan of Wasit
A hospital opened in Wasit on Tuesday, the fifteenth of Dhu al-Qa'da 413 AH, built by Mu'ayyad al-Mulk Abu 'Ali al-Hasan al-Rukhkhi, vizier of Musharraf al-Dawla. Medicines and syrups were brought to it, a storekeeper, physicians and agents were assigned to it, endowments were set aside for it, and a monthly allowance was set on the sultan's accounts.
Concept
Akrabadhin (the pharmacopoeia, a treatise on compound drugs)
Akrabadhin, from the Syriac grabadhin, reproducing a Greek word for 'treatise', was used by the Arabs for treatises on compounding drugs, the pharmacopoeias. The first to win universal acceptance in the caliphate was that of the Christian physician Sabur b. Sahl (d. 255/869), followed by the Akrabadhin of Amin al-Dawla Hibat Allah b. Sa'id Ibn al-Tilmidh (d. 560/1165).Anbik (the alembic; head of the distilling apparatus)
The anbik, from Greek, is the part of the distilling apparatus also called the head or cap, set over the cucurbit. It appears in the tenth-century translation of Dioscorides and in al-Razi and other chemical texts, where it is used for distilling rose-water.
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