
Jabril ibn Bukhtishu, (Jibril ibn Bakhtisha) also written as Bakhtyshu, was an 8th-9th century physician from the
Bukhtishu
The Bukhtīshūʿ (or Boḵtīšūʿ) were a family of either Persian or Syrian Eastern Christian physicians from the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. The Middle Persian- Syriac name which can be found ...
family of
Assyrian Nestorian
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physicians from the
Persian
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** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
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Academy of Gundishapur
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. He was a
Nestorian
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and spoke the
Syriac language
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.
Grandson of
Jirjis ibn Jibril, he lived in the second half of the eighth century.
He was physician to
Ja'far the Barmakide, then in 805-6 to
Harun al-Rashid
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and later to
al-Ma'mun
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; died in 828-29; buried in the monastery of St. Sergios in
al-Madain (
Ctesiphon
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).
He wrote various medical works and exerted much influence upon the progress of science in
Baghdad
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. Works attributed to him include ''Kitāb ṭabā’i‘ al-ḥayawān wa-khawāṣṣihā wa-manāfi‘ a‘ḍā’ihā'' ('Book of the Characteristics of Animals and Their Properties and the Usefulness of Their Organs'), written for
Nasir al-Dawla
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; ''Risāla fī al-ṭibb wa-al-aḥdāth al-nafsāniyya'' ('Treatise on Medicine and Psychological Phenomena'); and ''Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān''.
[ He was a member of the Bukhtīshūʿ family. He took pains to obtain Greek medical manuscripts and patronized the translators.
]
See also
*List of Persian scientists
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*The Bukhtishu
The Bukhtīshūʿ (or Boḵtīšūʿ) were a family of either Persian or Syrian Eastern Christian physicians from the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. The Middle Persian- Syriac name which can be found ...
family.
* Bukhtishu, Abdollah 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 ...
Further reading
* F. Wüstenfeld, ''Arabische Aerzte'' (15-16, 1840).
* Lucien Leclerc
Nicholas Lucien Leclerc (1816 in Ville-sur-Illon – 1893) was a French military doctor, translator, and influential early western historian of medicine in the medieval Islamic world. He was an assistant military surgeon in Algeria from 1840–44 ...
, ''Médecine arabe'' (vol. 1, 99-102, 1876).
* Max Meyerhof
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Animals
* Max (American dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog
* Max (British dog), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of the OBE)
* Max (gorilla) (1 ...
, ''New Light on Hunain ibn Ishaq'' (''Isis'', VIII, 717, 1926).
References
Further reading
*
Bushtishu, Jabril ibn
Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
9th-century Iranian physicians
Church of the East Christians
Iranian Assyrian people
Iranian Christians
Nestorians in the Abbasid Caliphate
9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
Medieval Assyrian physicians
Syriac writers
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