'Ubayd Allah ibn Bakhtishu

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.^[1] He lived in Mayyāfāriqīn.^[2]

Abdullah Ibn Bakhtishu with a student.

He was the last representative of the Bukhtyashu family of Nestorian Christian physicians, who emigrated from Jundishapur to Baghdad in 765.^[2] 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).^[2]

See also

• List of Iranian scientists
• The Bukhtishu family.
• Bukhtishu, Gabriel ibn.
• Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu

Notes

1. "Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts: Greek Influences". Nlm.nih.gov. 1998-04-15. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
2. Walker-Meikle, Kathleen (2023), Stathakopoulos, Dionysios; Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros (eds.), "De sexaginta animalibus: A Latin Translation of an Arabic Manāfiʿ al-ḥayawān Text on the Pharmaceutical Properties of Animals", Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 104–129, doi:10.1017/9781009389792.004, ISBN 978-1-009-38979-2

References

• Ibn Bakhtīshūʻ, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Jibrāʼīl.; Kahl, Oliver; Bos, Gerrit (2018). ʻUbaidallah Ibn Buhtišuʻ on Apparent Death: The Kitab Taḥrīm Dafn Al-aḥyāʼ, Arabic Edition and English Translation. Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-37231-3. OCLC 1040081222.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• C. Brocklmann: Encyclopaedia of Islam (t. 1, 601, 1911).