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Abu Sa'id 'Ubayd Allah ibn Bakhtishu (980–1060), also spelled Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa in many texts, was an 11th-century
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physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
, descendant of Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori. He spoke the
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. He was the last representative of the Bukhtyashu family of
Nestorian Christian Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings. The first meaning of the term is related to the original teachings of Christian theologian N ...
physicians, who emigrated from
Jundishapur Gundeshapur ( pal, 𐭥𐭧𐭩𐭠𐭭𐭣𐭩𐭥𐭪𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩, ''Weh-Andiōk-Šābuhr''; New Persian: , ''Gondēshāpūr'') was the intellectual centre of the Sassanid Empire and the home of the Academy of Gundishapur, founde ...
to
Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
in 765. His main works are the ''Reminder of the Homestayer,'' dealing with the philosophical terms used in medicine, and a treatise on lovesickness.


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References

* * C. Brocklmann: Encyclopaedia of Islam (t. 1, 601, 1911). *


See also

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* The
Bukhtishu The Bukhtīshūʿ (or Boḵtīšūʿ) were a family of either Persian or Nestorian Christian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. The Middle Persian-Syriac name which can be found as early as at ...
family. * Bukhtishu, Gabriel ibn. *
Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu (Johannes Bukhtishu) was a 9th-century Persian or Syriac physician from Khuzestan, Persia. Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu‘ (or Bakhtishu‘) was a member of a prominent family of Nestorian Christian physicians originally from Jun ...
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bukhtishu, Abdollah ibn 980 births 1060 deaths Iranian Assyrian people 10th-century Iranian physicians Physicians of the medieval Islamic world 11th-century Iranian physicians Members of the Assyrian Church of the East Iranian Christians People from Baghdad Scholars under the Marwanid dynasty Syriac–Arabic translators