Ibn al-Jazzar

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Ibn al-Jazzar

Ibn al-Jazzar ( Arabic ابن الجزار, DMG Ibn al-Ǧazzār ; * at 898 (or 932) in Kairouan ; † around 1009 in Kairouan; complete Abu Dschaʿfar Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Abi Chalid al-Qairawani  /أبو جعفر أحمد بن إبراهيم أبي خالد القيرواني / Abū Ǧaʿfar Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm Abī Ḫālid al-Qairawānī ) was an influential North African physician and Arabic specialist author of the 10th century .

Life

Ibn al-Jazzar was a student of Isaac Judaeus and lived in Kairuan (Tunisia), where he belonged to the local medical school.

Publications

A total of around 40 works are ascribed to him. A selection:

  • Zād al-Musāfir (Viaticus peregrinantis) : German "Provisions for the traveler" (in full also The provisions of the traveler and the food of the sedentary ), a seven-book manual of pathology for traveling doctors , also called Viaticum (peregrinantis) (by Constantine the African edited, translated into Latin and published under his own name), which is also contained in the German Salernitan Pharmacopoeia .
  • Liber de Gradibus Simplicium (Book of Simple Medicines) a Latin adaptation and translation of (Kitāb) al-Iʿtimād by Constantine the African, who also published this work under his name. This drug knowledge was translated again in 150 later in 1233 by Stephan of Saragossa (= Stephanus of Lerida) as Liber fiduciae .
  • Liber de stomacho : stomach diseases (Latin translation by Constantine the African)
  • De elephantiasi
  • De coitu : about sexual disorders
  • De oblivione about forgetfulness and means of strengthening the brain
  • List of literature at OPACplus of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

literature

  • Fuat Sezgin : History of Arabic Literature. Vol. 3, Leiden 1970: Medicine, pharmacy, zoology, veterinary medicine
  • Sleïm Ammar, John Kirkup: Ibn Al Jazzar & the Medical School of Kairouan . International Society of the History of Medicine (English) Article excerpt by Sleïm Ammar
  • Ahmed Ben Miled: Ibn Al Jazzar. Constantin l'Africain , édition Salambô, Tunis, 1987 (French)
  • Ahmed Ben Miled: Histoire de la médecine arabe en Tunisie , édition Dar al-Gharb al-Islami, Beyrouth, 1999 (French)
  • Ahmed Ben Miled: Ibn Al Jazzar. Médecin à Kairouan , édition Al Maktaba Al Tounisia, Tunis, 1936 (French)
  • Friedrun R. Hau: The treatment of stomach diseases from the 4th book of the "Zâd al-musâfir" ('Viaticum') by Ibn al-Ğazzâr (10th century). (Medical habilitation thesis, Bonn 1980) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1991 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 41).
  • Jutta Schönfeld: Dentistry in the "Kitâb Zâd al-musâfir" of al-'Gazzâr [10. Century]. In: Sudhoffs Archiv 58, 1974, pp. 380-403.
  • Moritz Steinschneider : Constantins Lib. De gradibus and ibn al-Gezzars Adminiculum. In: German Archive for the History of Medicin u. medicinische geographie 2, 1879; Reprint Hildesheim and New York 1971, pp. 1–22.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gundolf Keil : The German Isaak Judäus reception from the 13th to the 15th century. Shaker, Aachen 2015 (= European Science Relations, Supplement 2), ISBN 978-3-8440-3933-7 ; P. 23 f. and 34 f.
  2. ^ Friedrun R. Hau: Ibn al-Ǧazzār (Abū Ǧaʿfar Aḥmad ibn abī Ḫālid). 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. 461 f.
  3. ↑ Manfred Ullmann: Medicine in Islam (= Handbook of Oriental Studies , 1st section, supplementary volume VI, 1). Leiden and Cologne 1970, p. 148.
  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. 16–19.
  5. ^ Friedrun R. Hau: Ibn al-Ğazzār (Abū Gaʿfar Aḥmad ibn abī Ḫālid). 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. 461 f.
  6. ↑ Mandred Ullmann (1970), p. 268 f. ( Adminiculum ).
  7. ↑ Lothar Volger (Ed.): The Liber fiduciae de simplicibus medicinis of Ibn al-Jazzār in the translation by Stephanus de Saragossa. (Mathematical and natural science dissertation Berlin) Würzburg 1941 (= texts and studies on the history of natural sciences. Volume 6).
  8. ↑ Sleim Ammar, vice president of the International Society for the History of Medicine
  9. ↑ Ahmed Ben Miled (1902-1994) was a Tunisian physician, specialist author, trade unionist and politician
personal data
SURNAME Ibn al-Jazzar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES أبو جعفر أحمد بن إبراهيم أبي خالد القيرواني; Abu Jafar Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Abi Chalid al-Qairawani; Ibn al-Ǧazzār, Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm; Ibn Al Jazzar; Algizar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Physician and specialist author
DATE OF BIRTH at 898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kairouan
DATE OF DEATH around 980
Place of death Kairouan