Ibn Jazla
Ibn Jazla Abu Ali Yahya ibn Isa ibn Jazla al-Baghdadi أبو علي يحيى بن عيسى بن جزله البغدادي | |
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| Born | Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Died | c. 1100 Baghdad,Abbasid Caliphate |
| Other names | Yahya, ibn Isa, Abu Ali |
| Occupation(s) | Physician and Author |
| Years active | 1040 – 1100 |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age (Later Abbasid era) |
| Known for | Convert to Islam fromNestorian Christianity |
| Children | Ali |
| Father | Isa ibn Jazla |
Abu Ali Yahya ibn Isa ibn Jazla al-BaghdadiorIbn Jazlah(Arabic:أبو علي يحيى بن عيسى بن جزله البغدادي), Latinized asBuhahylyha Bingezla,was an 11th-centuryArab[1]physician ofBaghdadand author of an influential treatise on regimen that was translated intoLatinin 1280ADby the SicilianJewishphysicianFaraj ben Salem.
Biography
[edit]Ibn Jazla was born of Christian Nestorian parents atBaghdad.He converted toIslamin 1074. He died in 1100 under the tutelage of Abu `Ali ibn Al-Walid Al-Maghribi.
Works
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HisTaqwim 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 toCharlemagneand that he wroteTablesorTacuinat the instigation of the latter.[2]This story has no historical foundation unless Ibn Jazla was born two centuries earlier, for indeed,Charlemagnewas emperor up to 814. The Tacuin was translated by the JewFaraj ben Salimand the Latin version was published in 1532. A German translation was published atStrasbourgin 1533 byHans Schotte.
Ibn Jazla also wrote another work,Al-Minhaj fi Al-Adwiah Al-Murakkabah,(Methodology of Compound Drugs), which was translated byJambolinusand was known in Latin translation as the Cibis et medicines simplicibus.
A convert to Islam, he wrote works in praise of Islam and criticisingChristianity[3]andJudaism.
- Tacvini Aegritvdinvm et Morborum ferme omnium Corporis humani: cum curis eorundem/ Bvhahylyha Byngezla Autore. [Trans.: Farag Ben Salim]. - Argentorati: Schottus, 1532.digital
- Tacuini sanitatis Elluchasem Elimithar: de sex rebus non naturalibus earum naturis operationibus... recens exarati/ Elluchasem Elimithar. - Argentorati: Schott, 1531.digital
References
[edit]- Donald Campbell (1926),Arabian Medicine and its Influence on the Middle Ages, Vol. 1.London: Trübner. Reissued byRoutledge,1974, 2000.ISBN0-415-24462-5.p. 82.
- ^Lewis, B., ed. (1986).Encyclopedia of Islam, Vol 3, H - Iram(Photomechan. repr. ed.). Leiden [u.a.]: Brill [u.a.] p. 754.ISBN9004081186.
- ^Edward G. Browne(1921),Arabian Medicine,pp. 60-1.
- ^A history of Arabic literature ByClément Huart,p. 311
External links
[edit]- Tacuini aegritudinum et Morborum ferme omnium corporis humani, cum curis eorundem.Online scanned version of the 1532 Latin printed translation.
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