Abū al-Makārim Hibat Allāh ibn Zayn al-Dīn ibn Jumayʿ (هبة الله بن جميع, died 1198 / AH 594) was an Egyptian Jewish physician, chief physician at the court ofSaladin.[1]
Ibn Jumayʿ was born to a Jewish family inFustat,Egypt. He studied with the physicianIbn al-ʿAynzarbī (died 1153/AH 548) and entered the service ofSaladin.[2][3] According toIbn Abi Usaibia'sLives of the Physicians, Ibn Jumayʿ wrote eight works on medical-related subjects.
A contemporary ofMoses Maimonides, Ibn Jumayʿ "became famous for having prevented a person having acataleptic fit from beingburied alive. He was the author of a number of medical writings, includingal-Irshād li-maṣāliḥ, dedicated toal-Baysanī, the vizier to Saladin, and completed by Ibn Jumayʿ al-Isrā’īlī's son Abū Tahir Ismāʿīl."[3]
Fenton, Paul B., 'The state of Arab medicine at the time of Maimonides according to Ibn Gumayʿ's Treatise on the Revival of the Art of Medicine, in Fred Rosner and Samuel S. Kottek, ed.,Moses Maimonides - Physician, Scientist and Philosopher, 1993
Meyerhof, Max, 'Sultan Saladin's physician on the transmission of Greek medicine to the Arabs',Bulletin of the History of Medicine 18 (1945), 169-178
