Masarjawaih

For the rabbi, see Rav Mesharshiya.

Māsarjawaih (Arabic: ماسرجويه) was one of the earliest Jewish physicians of Persian[1] origin, and the earliest translator from the Syriac; he lived in Basra about 683 (Anno Hegirae 64). His name, distorted, has been transmitted in European sources; it has not yet been satisfactorily explained. Neuda (in "Orient, Lit." vi. 132) compares the name "Masarjawaih" with the Hebrew proper name "Mesharsheya"; but the ending "-waih" points to a Persian origin. The form "Masarjis" has been compared with the Christian proper name "Mar Serjis"; but it is not known that Masarjis embraced either Christianity or Islam.

Masarjawaih's son, who also was a translator, and was the author of two treatises (on colors and on foods), was called "'Isa", that is, "Jesus"; whose name indicates that this son had converted to Christianity.

Masarjawaih translated the medical Pandects of the archdeacon or presbyter Aaron of Alexandria (fl. c. 610–641) from the Syriac into Arabic and added to the thirty chapters of this translation two of his own. This is believed to be the first scientific book to have been translated into Arabic. He also wrote in Arabic two treatises, "The Virtues of Foods, Their Advantage and Their Disadvantage", and "The Virtues of the Medicinal Plants, Their Advantage and Their Disadvantage". None of these three writings has been preserved. Their contents, however, are known to a certain extent by quotations. How much Masarjawaih added to the translation of Aaron's pandects can hardly be decided, as the works themselves are preserved in fragments only.

## Resources

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* Gottheil, Richard and Max Schloessinger. "Masarjawaih". Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901–1906; which gives the following bibliography:

* Steinschneider, in Z. D. M. G. liii. 428 et seq.;
* idem, Die Arabische Literatur, § 16, pp. 13 et seq. G. M. Sc.

## See also

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* Faraj ben Salim

## References

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1. ^ Hitti, Philip K. (1977). History of the Arabs from the earliest times to the present (10th ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 255\. ISBN 978-0-333-09871-4. "A Jewish physician of Persian origin, Masarjawayh of al-Basrah (...)"

* This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. `{{cite encyclopedia}}`: Missing or empty `|title=` (help)

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Islamic medicine

Physicians|

| 7th century|

* Abu Hafsa Yazid
* Al-Harith ibn Kalada
* Bukhtishu
* Ibn Abi Ramtha al-Tamimi
* Ibn Uthal
* Masarjawaih
* Nafi ibn al-Harith
* Rufaida Al-Aslamia
* Zaynab al-Awadiya

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8th century|

* Bukhtishu
* Ja'ar al-Sadiq

9th century|

* Al-Kindi
* Al-Ruhawi
* Albubather
* Ali al-Ridha
* Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari
* Bukhtishu
* Hunayn ibn Ishaq
* Ishaq ibn Hunayn
* Jabir ibn Hayyan
* Jabril ibn Bukhtishu
* Masawaiyh
* Salmawaih ibn Bunan
* Shapur ibn Sahl
* Yahya ibn Sarafyun
* Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu
* Yusuf al-Khuri

10th century|

* 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi
* Aayon Ibn Aayon
* Abu Bakr Rabee Ibn Ahmad Al-Akhawyni Bokhari
* Abu Bakr al-Razi
* Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi
* Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
* Abu al-Hasan al-Tabari
* Abu al-Qasim Muqane'i
* Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
* Abu ul-Ala Shirazi
* Al-Kaŝkarī
* Al-Natili
* Al-Tamimi, the physician
* Eutychius of Alexandria
* Ibn Abi al-Ashʿath
* Ibn Juljul
* Ibn al-Jazzar
* Ibrahim ibn Baks
* Isaac Israeli ben Solomon
* Mohammed ibn Abdun al-Jabali
* Muvaffak
* Qumri
* Qusta ibn Luqa

11th century|

* Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu
* Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani
* Abu al-Hakam al-Kirmani
* Al-Biruni
* Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal
* Ali ibn Ridwan
* Ali ibn Yusuf al-Ilaqi
* Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili
* Avicenna
* Badi' al-Asturlabi
* Ibn Abi Sadiq
* Ibn Al-Thahabi
* Ibn Butlan
* Ibn Hindu
* Ibn Jazla
* Ibn al-Haytham
* Ibn al-Kattani
* Ibn al-Wafid
* Jonah ibn Janah
* Masawaih

12th century|

* Abu Jafar ibn Harun al-Turjali
* Abu al-Bayan ibn al-Mudawwar
* Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam
* Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
* Ahmad ibn Farrokh
* Al-Samawal al-Maghribi
* Avempace
* Averroes
* Ibn Habal
* Ibn Jumay‘
* Ibn Tufayl
* Ibn Zuhr
* Ibn al-Tilmīdh
* Moshe ben Maimon
* Muhammad ibn Aslam Al-Ghafiqi
* Serapion the Younger
* Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Israili
* Zayn al-Din Gorgani

13th century|

* Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
* Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon
* Al-Dakhwar
* Al-Shahrazuri
* Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat
* As-Suwaydi
* Da'ud Abu al-Fadl
* Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi
* Ibn Abi Usaibia
* Ibn Tumlus
* Ibn al-Baitar
* Ibn al-Nafis
* Ibn al-Quff
* Ibn al‐Raqqam
* Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta
* Najib ad-Din Samarqandi
* Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
* Rashidun al-Suri
* Sa'ad al-Dawla
* Zakariya al-Qazwini

14th century|

* Al-Nagawri
* Aqsara'i
* Ibn Shuayb
* Ibn al-Akfani
* Ibn al-Khatib
* Jaghmini
* Mansur ibn Ilyas
* Mas‘ud ibn Muhammad Sijzi
* Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli
* Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi
* Nakhshabi
* Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
* Sadid al-Din al-Kazaruni
* Yusuf ibn Ismail al-Kutubi
* Zayn-e-Attar

15th century|

* Abu Sa'id al-Afif
* Burhan-ud-din Kermani
* Husayni Isfahani
* Muhammad Ali Astarabadi
* Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi
* Nurbakhshi
* Shaykh Muhammad ibn Thaleb
* Şerafeddin Kadir

16th century|

* Rostam Gorgani
* ʽImad Shirazi
* Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani
* Dawud al-Antaki
* Hakim-e-Gilani
* Sultan Ali Khorasani
* Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf

17th century|

* Qiwam al-Din Muhammad al-Hasani
* Abd El Razzaq Al-Jazaïri
* Qurayshi al-Shirazi
* Tunakabuni
* Maqsud-Ali Tabrizi

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
* Al-Tasrif
* Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi
* Adab al-Tabib
* Kamel al-Sanaat al-Tibbyya
* Al-Hawi
* Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon
* Lives of the Physicians

Centers|

* Al-'Adudi Hospital
* Bimarestan
* Nur al-Din Bimaristan

Influences|

* Ancient Greek medicine
* Ancient Iranian medicine
* Ayurveda

Influenced|

* Ibn Sina Academy
* Learned medicine
* Medical Renaissance
* Medieval medicine

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