Ibn al-Tilmīdh
ابن التلمیذ
BornHabbat-allah Ibn Said
أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد بن هبة الله بن إبراهيم البغدادى النصرانى
1074
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq
Died11 April 1165 (aged 92)
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq
OccupationPhysician, Pharmacist, Poet, musician, Calligrapher,
As physician in Al-'Adudi Hospital, Baghdad, now Iraq,
Personal physician of Caliph Al-Mustadi
Notable worksMarginal commentary on Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine,
Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir,
Maqālah fī al-faṣd

Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh (Arabic: هبة الله بن صاعد ابن التلميذ; 1074 – 11 April 1165) was a Christian Arab physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher of the medieval Islamic civilization.[1][2]

Life

Ibn al-Tilmidh worked at the ʻAḍudī hospital in Baghdad where he eventually became its chief physician as well as court physician to the caliph Al-Mustadi, and in charge of licensing physicians in Baghdad.[3] He mastered the Arabic, Persian, Greek and Syriac languages. Al-Tilmidh was a friend of the Muslim scientist al-Badīʿ al-Asṭurlābī with whom he frequently sided against Abu'l-Barakat.[4]

He compiled several medical works, the most influential being Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir, a pharmacopeia which became the standard pharmacological work in the hospitals of the Islamic civilization, superseding an earlier work by Sabur ibn Sahl.[3] His poetry included riddles: Abū al-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī quotes five of them, and a verse solution by al-Tilmīdh to another riddle, in his Kitāb al-iʿjāz fī l-aḥājī wa-l-alghāz (Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles).[5]: 266 

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References

  1. ^ Meyerhof, M. (24 April 2012). "Ibn al-Tilmīd̲h̲". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.
  2. ^ Käs, Fabian (2023), Stathakopoulos, Dionysios; Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros (eds.), "Ibn al-Tilmīdh's Book on Simple Drugs: A Christian Physician from Baghdad on the Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Persian Nomenclature of Plants and Minerals", Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 37–57, doi:10.1017/9781009389792.002, ISBN 978-1-009-38979-2
  3. ^ a b Chipman, Leigh (2010). The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo. Leiden: Brill. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-90-04-17606-5.
  4. ^ Griffel, Frank (8 June 2021). The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam. Oxford University Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-19-088634-9. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  5. ^ Nefeli Papoutsakis, ‘Abū l-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī (d. 568/1172) and his Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles’, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 109 (2019), 251–69.

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