Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani
Abū 'Ubayd al-Jūzjānī (d.1070) (ابو عبيد جوزجانی) was a Muslim physician and chronicler from Guzgan (modern day Uzbekistan). He was the famous pupil of Avicenna, whom he first met in Gorgan. He spent many years with his master in Isfahan, becoming his lifetime companion.
Also recorded as ʿAbd-al-Wāḥid Ǧuzǧānī · Arsanus · ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Jūzjānī · ʿAbd-al-Wāḥid Ibn-Muḥammad Ǧūzǧānī
Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani
- Born
- 980. · Khorasan.
- Died
- 1070.
- Occupation
- writer, physician, chronicler and biographer.
- Teachers
- Avicenna.
- Languages
- Persian.
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Abū 'Ubayd al-Jūzjānī (d.1070) (ابو عبيد جوزجانی) was a Muslim physician and chronicler from Guzgan (modern day Uzbekistan). He was the famous pupil of Avicenna, whom he first met in Gorgan. He spent many years with his master in Isfahan, becoming his lifetime companion.
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After Avicenna's death, he completed Avicenna's Autobiography with a concluding section. The historian Ibn Abi Usaibia refers Avicenna and his close companion Abu Ubayd lived together the residence of Sheikh al-Raiss (which is the title given to Avicenna) and were used to pass each night on studying one by one the Canon and Shifā ' s instructions.
Training under Avicenna is recorded. The recorded working language is Persian.
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980
Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani born at Khorasan.
1070
Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani died.
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- 1.Zedler Online 2 1124 2198 2198 Avicenna
- 2.Gotthard Strohmaier: Avicenna. Beck, München 1999, ISBN 3-406-41946-1, S. 32.
- 3.Paul Kraus: Eine arabische Biographie Avicennas. In: Klinische Wochenschrift. Band 11, 1932, S. 1880–1884 (Deutsche Übersetzung von Avicennas Autobiographie und ihrer Fortsetzung durch al-Dschuzdschani). Auch in: Medizinisches Journal. Band 1, 1966, S. 261–274, hier: S. 271.
- 4.Gotthard Strohmaier: Avicenna. 1999, S. 32.
- 5.Dt. von Stefan Linster, (Knaur TB) München 1994, ISBN 3-426-63014-1.
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