Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh ( ar, هبة الله بن صاعد ابن التلميذ; 1074 – 11 April 1165) was a Arab Christians, Christian Arab physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher of the medieval Islamic Golden Age, Islamic civilization.
Ibn al-Tilmidh worked at the ʻAḍudī hospital in Baghdad where he eventually became its chief physician as well as court physician to the caliph Al-Mustadi, and in charge of licensing physicians in Baghdad.
He mastered the Arabic language, Arabic, Persian language, Persian, Greek language, Greek and Syriac language, Syriac languages.
He compiled several medical works, the most influential being ''Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir'', a pharmacopeia which became the standard pharmacological work in the hospitals of the Islamic civilization, superseding an earlier work by Sabur ibn Sahl.
His poetry included riddles: Abū al-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī quotes five of them, and a verse solution by al-Tilmīdh to another riddle, in his ''Kitāb al-iʿjāz fī l-aḥājī wa-l-alghāz'' (Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles).
[Nefeli Papoutsakis, ‘Abū l-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī (d. 568/1172) and his ''Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles''’, ''Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes'', 109 (2019), 251–69.]
Works
* ''Marginal commentary on Ibn Sina's The Canon of Medicine, "Canon"''
* ''Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir''
* ''Maqālah fī al-faṣd''
References
Further reading
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1074 births
1165 deaths
Pharmacologists of the medieval Islamic world
12th-century physicians
Medieval Assyrian physicians
Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
Musicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
Iraqi calligraphers
12th-century Arabic poets
12th-century Arabs
11th-century Arabs
Calligraphers from the Abbasid Caliphate