Abu Ali Yahya ibn Isa ibn Jazla al-Baghdadi or Ibn Jazlah (), Latinized as Buhahylyha Bingezla, was an 11th-century

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physician of

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and author of an influential treatise on regimen that was translated into

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in 1280 AD by the Sicilian

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physician Faraj ben Salem.

Biography

Ibn Jazla was born of Christian Nestorian parents at

. He converted to Islam in 1074. He died in 1100 under the tutelage of Abu `Ali ibn Al-Walid Al-Maghribi.

Works

His ''Taqwim 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 to

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and that he wrote ''Tables'' or ''Tacuin'' at the instigation of the latter. This story has no historical foundation unless Ibn Jazla was born two centuries earlier, for indeed,

was emperor up to 814. The Tacuin was translated by the Jew

Faraj ben Salim Faraj ben Sālim (), also known as Farragut of Girgenti, Moses Farachi of Dirgent, Ferragius, Farragus, or Franchinus or Ferrauto, was a Sicilian-Jewish physician and translator who flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century. Work ...

and the Latin version was published in 1532. A German translation was published at Strasbourg in 1533 by Hans Schotte. Ibn Jazla also wrote another work, ''Al-Minhaj fi Al-Adwiah Al-Murakkabah'', (Methodology of Compound Drugs), which was translated by Jambolinus and was known in Latin translation as the Cibis et medicines simplicibus. A convert to Islam, he wrote works in praise of Islam and criticising

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A history of Arabic literature By Clément Huart, p. 311 and

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. * ''Tacvini Aegritvdinvm et Morborum ferme omnium Corporis humani : cum curis eorundem'' / Bvhahylyha Byngezla Autore. rans.: Farag Ben Salim - Argentorati : Schottus, 1532
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* ''Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar : de sex rebus non naturalibus earum naturis operationibus ... recens exarati'' / Elluchasem Elimithar. - Argentorati : Schott, 1531
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References

*Donald Campbell (1926), ''Arabian Medicine and its Influence on the Middle Ages, Vol. 1''. London: Trübner. Reissued by

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, 1974, 2000. . p. 82.

External links

Tacuini aegritudinum et Morborum ferme omnium corporis humani, cum curis eorundem
Online scanned version of the 1532 Latin printed translation. Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate Writers from Baghdad Iraqi Muslims Converts to Islam 1100 deaths Year of birth unknown 11th-century physicians 11th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate 11th-century Arabs {{Iraq-writer-stub