Ibn Jazla Abu Ali Yahya ibn Isa ibn Jazla al-Baghdadi أبو علي يحيى بن عيسى بن جزله البغدادي | |
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| Born | Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Died | c. 1100 Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Other names | Yahya, ibn Isa, Abu Ali |
| Occupation(s) | Physician and Author |
| Years active | 1040 – 1100 |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age (Later Abbasid era) |
| Known for | Convert to Islam fromNestorian Christianity |
| Children | Ali |
| Father | Isa ibn Jazla |
Abu Ali Yahya ibn Isa ibn Jazla al-Baghdadi orIbn Jazlah (Arabic:أبو علي يحيى بن عيسى بن جزله البغدادي), Latinized asBuhahylyha Bingezla, was an 11th-centuryArab[1] physician ofBaghdad and author of an influential treatise on regimen that was translated intoLatin in 1280AD by the SicilianJewish physicianFaraj ben Salem.
Ibn Jazla was born of Christian Nestorian parents atBaghdad. He converted toIslam in 1074. He died in 1100 under the tutelage of Abu `Ali ibn Al-Walid Al-Maghribi.
HisTaqwim al-Abdan fi Tadbir al-Insan (Dispositio corporum de constitutione hominis, Tacuin agritudinum), as the name implies: tables in which diseases are arranged like the stars in astronomical tables, was translated into Latin.
There is a story which says that he was one of the physicians toCharlemagne and that he wroteTables orTacuin at the instigation of the latter.[2] This story has no historical foundation unless Ibn Jazla was born two centuries earlier, for indeed,Charlemagne was emperor up to 814. The Tacuin was translated by the JewFaraj ben Salim and the Latin version was published in 1532. A German translation was published atStrasbourg in 1533 byHans Schotte.
Ibn Jazla also wrote another work,Al-Minhaj fi Al-Adwiah Al-Murakkabah, (Methodology of Compound Drugs), which was translated byJambolinus and was known in Latin translation as the Cibis et medicines simplicibus.
A convert to Islam, he wrote works in praise of Islam and criticisingChristianity[3] andJudaism.
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