Ibn al-Tilmīdh
أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد بن هبة الله بن إبراهيم البغدادى النصرانى • Born — 1074 • Birthplace — Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq • Died — 11 April 1165 (aged 92) • Place of death — 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 Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh (1074 – 11 April 1165) was a Christian Arab physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher of the medieval Islamic civilization.
Also recorded as Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh
Ibn al-Tilmīdh
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- Name
- Ibn al-Tilmīdh ابن التلمیذ
- Birth Name
- Habbat-allah Ibn Said
- Died
- 1165 · Baghdad.
- Nationality
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Occupation
- physician · poet · musician · literary scholar · calligrapher · writer · director
- Known for
- pharmacopoeia
- Languages
- Arabic · Syriac · Persian
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• Name — Ibn al-Tilmīdh ابن التلمیذ • Birth Name — Habbat-allah Ibn Said
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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. 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. 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. 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).
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• Marginal commentary on Ibn Sina's "Canon" • Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir • Maqālah fī al-faṣd
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- 1.Meyerhof, M. Ibn al-Tilmīd̲h̲. Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. 2012-04-24.
- 2.Käs, Fabian. Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge. Cambridge University Press. 37–57. 2023. 978-1-009-38979-2.
- 3.Chipman, Leigh. The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo. Brill. 31–32. 2010. 978-90-04-17606-5.
- 4.Griffel, Frank. The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam. Oxford University Press. 122. 8 June 2021. 978-0-19-088634-9.
- 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.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Kahl, Oliver. The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd̲ : Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries. Brill. 2007. 978-90-04-15620-3.
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