Ibn Abī Usaibiʿa

Ibn Abī Usaibiʿa ( Arabic ابن أبي أصيبعة, DMG Ibn Abī Uṣaibiʿa ; * after 1194 in Damascus ; † 1270 in Salchad ) was an Arab doctor and biographer from the 13th century. His full name was Muwaffaq ad-Dīn Abū l-ʿAbbās Ahmad ibn al-Qāsim ibn Chalifa ibn Yūnus asch-Shiʿrī al-Khazradschī /موفق الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن القاسم بن خليفة بن يونس الشعري الخزرجي / Muwaffaq ad-Dīn Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. al-Qāsim b. Ḫalīfa b. Yūnus aš-Šiʿrī al-Ḫazraǧī . In addition to his medical work, he wrote a detailed history of medicine , which is mainly a collection of 380 biographies, mainly Arabic-speaking doctors and scientists.

Life

Ibn Abi Usaibiʿa came from a family of doctors. He studied medicine in Damascus and received botany lessons from Ibn al-Baitar . Ibn Abi Usaibiʿa worked in the Damascus Nuri Hospital. He later moved to the Nasir Hospital in Cairo . In 1236 he entered the service of ʿIzz ad-Din Aibak al-Muʿazzami in Salchad, where he died in 1270. The pharmaceutical writer and doctor ʿIzz ad-Dīn as-Suwaidī (* 1204 in Damascus; † 1292 ibid) belonged to his circle of friends.

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Ibn Abi Usaibiʿa became known for his collection of biographies عيون الأنباء في طبقات الأطباء / ʿUyūn al-Anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ ("Sources of the news of the generations of doctors"). The book comprises 15 chapters and deals with the origins of medicine and 380 biographies of important doctors and scientists, including Greeks, Arabs, Persians and Indians. It contains, for example, the biographies of Avicenna , al-Farabi , Ibn Ruschd , Galenus and Hippocrates and also provides insights into the way in which oriental medicine worked in the 13th century.

The biographical work is based on earlier biographical works, for example by Ibn Dschuldschul. Ibn Abi Usaibiʿa wrote other, but lost, works on topics of medicine. The book was published in Europe in 1884 by August Müller and partially translated into German by H. Waly in 1910.

literature

Juan Vernet: Ibn Abi Usaybiʿa . In: The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Brill, suffering.
Heinrich Schipperges (†): Ibn abï Uṣaibiʿa (= Muwaffaq ad Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim). 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. 1432.
Manfred Ullmann : Medicine in Islam. In: Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1st section, supplementary volume IV, 1st section. Leiden 1970. p. 231 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Muslim Day on Ibn Abi Usaibiʿa
↑ http://www.islamicmedicine.org/bimaristan.htm Sharif Kaf Al-Ghazal
^ The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Suffering, sv Ibn Abi Usaybiʿa
↑ August Müller (Ed.): Ibn abī Uṣaibiʿa, ʿUyūn al-Anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ. 2 volumes. Self-published by Müller, Kairo / Königsberg 1882–1884.
↑ H. Waly: Three chapters from the medical history of Ibn Abi Oṣaibiʿa. Medical dissertation Berlin 1910.

personal data
SURNAME	Ibn Abī Usaibiʿa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	ابن أبي أصيبعة (Arabic); موفق الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن القاسم بن خليفة بن يونس الشعري الخزرجي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Arab doctor and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH	after 1194
PLACE OF BIRTH	Damascus
DATE OF DEATH	1270
Place of death	Salchad

[1] Muslim Day on Ibn Abi Usaibiʿa

[2] ttp://www.islamicmedicine.org/bimaristan.htm Sharif Kaf Al-Ghazal

[3] The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition . Suffering, sv Ibn Abi Usaybiʿa

[4] August Müller (Ed.): Ibn abī Uṣaibiʿa, ʿUyūn al-Anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ. 2 volumes. Self-published by Müller, Kairo / Königsberg 1882–1884.

[5] H. Waly: Three chapters from the medical history of Ibn Abi Oṣaibiʿa. Medical dissertation Berlin 1910.