Ali ibn Isa

ʿAlī ibn 'Īsā al-Kaḥḥāl ( Arabic علي بن عيسى الكحال), Latinized Jesus Haly and Iesu filii Haly ("Ali, the son of Jesus"), wrongly also Jesus Halus , Haly Jesus and Jesus (filius) Haly , was an important Arab ophthalmologist of the Middle Ages and lived in the first half of the 11th century. Century.

life and work

Šaraf ad-Din ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā, or Ibn ʿĪsā for short, studied in Baghdad at the ʿAḍūdī Hospital with the Nestorian monk, doctor, philosopher and theologian Ibn aṭ-Ṭaiyib († 1043).

In his main work (Kitāb) Taḏkirat al-kaḥḥālīn (Handbook for Ophthalmologists), which also became one of the sources of an important Silesian ophthalmological publication around 1400, he describes 130 eye diseases and presents 141 remedies for eye disorders. The Latin translation of Jesus' work was available to Western medicine as early as the late High Middle Ages and became an ophthalmic textbook that was used until the early 18th century.

Fonts

Ali ibn Isa: Memory book for ophthalmologists , translated from Arabic manuscripts and explained by Julius Hirschberg and Julius Lippert (1866–1911); Veit publishing house, 1904

literature

Friedrun R. Hau: Ibn ʻĪsā (= ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsā, Jesu Haly). In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. Edited by Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil and Wolfgang Wegner, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005 ( ISBN 3-11-015714-4 ), p. 682.
Dag Nikolaus Hasse : Success and Suppression. Arabic Sciences and Philosophy in the Renaissance. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) / London 2016, ISBN 978-0-674-97158-5 , pp. 380-383.

Web links

Aryeh Feigenbaum: Did 'Ali ibn' Isa use general anesthesia in eye operations? In: The British journal of ophthalmology. Volume 44, November 1960, pp. 684-688, PMID 13698621 , PMC 510017 (free full text).

Individual evidence

↑ E. Wednesday: ʿ Alī b. ʿ Īsā . In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition . tape 1 . Brill, Leiden 1960, ISBN 90-04-08114-3 , pp. 388 a-b .
↑ J. Vernet: Ibn al-Ṭayyib . In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition . tape 3 . Brill, Leiden 1971, ISBN 90-04-08118-6 , pp. 955 a .
^ Gundolf Keil : 'Pommersfeldener (Silesian) Eye Booklet'. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1175.
↑ Gundolf Keil: "blutken - bloedekijn". Notes on the etiology of the hyposphagma genesis in the 'Pommersfeld Silesian Eye Booklet' (1st third of the 15th century). With an overview of the ophthalmological texts of the German Middle Ages. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013, pp. 7–175, here: pp. 137–141.

personal data
SURNAME	Ali ibn Isa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	'Īsā, ʿAlī ibn; Haly, Jesus; Haly, Iesu filii; Halus, Jesus; Jesus, Haly; Haly, Jesus (filius); علي بن عيسى الكحال (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Medieval ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH	10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH	11th century

[1] E. Wednesday: ʿ Alī b. ʿ Īsā . In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition . tape 1 . Brill, Leiden 1960, ISBN 90-04-08114-3 , pp. 388 a-b .

[2] J. Vernet: Ibn al-Ṭayyib . In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition . tape 3 . Brill, Leiden 1971, ISBN 90-04-08118-6 , pp. 955 a .

[3] Gundolf Keil : 'Pommersfeldener (Silesian) Eye Booklet'. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1175.

[4] Gundolf Keil: "blutken - bloedekijn". Notes on the etiology of the hyposphagma genesis in the 'Pommersfeld Silesian Eye Booklet' (1st third of the 15th century). With an overview of the ophthalmological texts of the German Middle Ages. In: Specialized prose research - Crossing borders. Volume 8/9, 2012/2013, pp. 7–175, here: pp. 137–141.