Ibn al-Tilmidh
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]
Ibn al-Tilmīdh ابن التلمیذ | |
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| Born | Habbat-allah Ibn Said أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد بن هبة الله بن إبراهيم البغدادى النصرانى 1074 Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq |
| Died | 11 April 1165 (aged 92) Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq |
| Occupation | Physician, Pharmacist, Poet, musician, Calligrapher, As physician in Al-'Adudi Hospital, Baghdad, now Iraq, Personal physician of Caliph Al-Mustadi |
| Notable works | Marginal commentary on Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine, Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir, Maqālah fī al-faṣd |
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.
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).[4]: 266
References
- Meyerhof, M. (24 April 2012). "Ibn al-Tilmīd̲h̲". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.
- 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
- Chipman, Leigh (2010). The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo. Leiden: Brill. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-90-04-17606-5.
- 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.
Further reading
- Kahl, Oliver (2007). The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd̲ : Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15620-3.