Ibn al-Tilmidh

Syriac Christian physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher

Ibn al-Tilmīdh
ابن التلمیذ

Born| Habbat-allah Ibn Said
أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد بن هبة الله بن إبراهيم البغدادى النصرانى
1074
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq
Died| 11 April 1165 (aged 92)
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq
Occupation| Physician, Pharmacist, Poet, musician, Calligrapher,
As physician in Al-'Adudi Hospital, Baghdad, now Iraq,
Personal physician of Caliph Al-Mustadi
Notable works| Marginal commentary on Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine,
Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir,
Maqālah fī al-faṣd

Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh (Arabic: هبة الله بن صاعد ابن التلميذ; 1074 – 11 April 1165) was a Christian Arab physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher of the medieval Islamic civilization.[1][2]

## Life

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Ibn al-Tilmidh worked at the ʻAḍudī hospital in Baghdad where he eventually became its chief physician as well as court physician to the caliph Al-Mustadi, and in charge of licensing physicians in Baghdad.[3] He mastered the Arabic, Persian, Greek and Syriac languages. Al-Tilmidh was a friend of the Muslim scientist al-Badīʿ al-Asṭurlābī with whom he frequently sided against Abu'l-Barakat.[4]

He compiled several medical works, the most influential being Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir, a pharmacopeia which became the standard pharmacological work in the hospitals of the Islamic civilization, superseding an earlier work by Sabur ibn Sahl.[3] His poetry included riddles: Abū al-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī quotes five of them, and a verse solution by al-Tilmīdh to another riddle, in his Kitāb al-iʿjāz fī l-aḥājī wa-l-alghāz (Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles).[5]: 266

## Works

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* Marginal commentary on Ibn Sina's "Canon"
* Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir
* Maqālah fī al-faṣd

## References

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1. ^ Meyerhof, M. (24 April 2012). "Ibn al-Tilmīd̲h̲". Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition.
2. ^ Käs, Fabian (2023), Stathakopoulos, Dionysios; Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros (eds.), "Ibn al-Tilmīdh's Book on Simple Drugs: A Christian Physician from Baghdad on the Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Persian Nomenclature of Plants and Minerals", Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 37–57, doi:10.1017/9781009389792.002, ISBN 978-1-009-38979-2
3. ^ a b Chipman, Leigh (2010). The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo. Leiden: Brill. pp. 31–32\. ISBN 978-90-04-17606-5.
4. ^ Griffel, Frank (8 June 2021). The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam. Oxford University Press. p. 122\. ISBN 978-0-19-088634-9. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
5. ^ Nefeli Papoutsakis, ‘Abū l-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī (d. 568/1172) and his Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles’, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 109 (2019), 251–69.

## Further reading

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* Kahl, Oliver (2007). The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd̲ : Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-15620-3.

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13th century|

* Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
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* Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta
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* Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
* Rashidun al-Suri
* Sa'ad al-Dawla
* Zakariya al-Qazwini

14th century|

* Al-Nagawri
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15th century|

* Abu Sa'id al-Afif
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* Husayni Isfahani
* Muhammad Ali Astarabadi
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* Nurbakhshi
* Shaykh Muhammad ibn Thaleb
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16th century|

* Rostam Gorgani
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17th century|

* Qiwam al-Din Muhammad al-Hasani
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18th century|

* Al-Khurasani al-Shirazi

Concepts|

* Ophthalmology
* Psychology

Works|

* Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah
* The Canon of Medicine
* Tacuinum Sanitatis
* Anatomy Charts of the Arabs
* The Book of Healing
* Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye
* De Gradibus
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* Kamel al-Sanaat al-Tibbyya
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* Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon
* Lives of the Physicians

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* Al-'Adudi Hospital
* Bimarestan
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* Ancient Greek medicine
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* Ibn Sina Academy
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