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'Ubayd Allah ibn Bakhtishu
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Medieval Persian physician (980–1058)
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Abu Sa'id 'Ubayd Allah ibn Bakhtishu (980–1058), also spelled Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa in many texts, was an 11th-century Syriac physician, descendant of Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori. He spoke the Syriac language.https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/islamic_03.html Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts: Greek Influences Nlm.nih.gov 1998-04-15 2010-02-08 He lived in Mayyāfāriqīn.Walker-Meikle Kathleen De sexaginta animalibus: A Latin Translation of an Arabic Manāfiʿ al-ḥayawān Text on the Pharmaceutical Properties of Animals 2023 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/drugs-in-the-medieval-mediterranean/de-sexaginta-animalibus/5AFA1BC45AADD6969F4945C9B1800DBE Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge 104–129 Stathakopoulos Dionysios Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781009389792.004 978-1-009-38979-2 Bouras-Vallianatos Petros subscription
He was the last representative of the Bukhtyashu family of Church of the East physicians, who emigrated from Jundishapur to Baghdad in 765. He authored Reminder of the Homestayer, which deals with the philosophical terms used in medicine, and a treatise on lovesickness. He also authored the Book on the Characteristics of Animals and Their Properties and the Usefulness of Their Organs, which covers works by Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Dioscorides, and ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī, as well as Manafi' al-Hayawan (Ms M. 500).
See also
List of Iranian scientists
The Bukhtishu family.
Bukhtishu, Gabriel ibn.
Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu
Notes
References
Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrāʼīl. Kahl Oliver Bos Gerrit ʻUbaidallah Ibn Buhtišuʻ on Apparent Death: The Kitab Taḥrīm Dafn Al-aḥyāʼ, Arabic Edition and English Translation Boston 2018 978-90-04-37231-3 1040081222
C. Brocklmann: Encyclopaedia of Islam (t. 1, 601, 1911).
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