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, nowIraq |
Died | 11 April 1165 (aged 92) Baghdad,Abbasid Caliphate, nowIraq |
Occupation | Physician,Pharmacist,Poet,musician,Calligrapher, Asphysician inAl-'Adudi Hospital,Baghdad, nowIraq, Personal physician of CaliphAl-Mustadi |
Notable works | Marginal commentary onAvicenna'sThe Canon of Medicine, Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir, Maqālah fī al-faṣd |
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 aChristian Arab physician,pharmacist, poet, musician andcalligrapher of the medievalIslamic civilization.[1][2]
Ibn al-Tilmidh worked at theʻAḍudī hospital inBaghdad where he eventually became its chief physician as well ascourt physician to the caliphAl-Mustadi, and in charge of licensing physicians in Baghdad.[3] He mastered theArabic,Persian,Greek andSyriac languages. Al-Tilmidh was a friend of the Muslim scientistal-Badīʿ al-Asṭurlābī with whom he frequently sided againstAbu'l-Barakat.[4]
He compiled several medical works, the most influential beingAl-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir, a pharmacopeia which became the standard pharmacological work in the hospitals of the Islamic civilization, superseding an earlier work bySabur 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 hisKitāb al-iʿjāz fī l-aḥājī wa-l-alghāz (Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles).[5]: 266