Ibn al-Tilmidh

{{short description|Syriac Christian physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Ibn al-Tilmīdh
ابن التلمیذ

| birth_name = Habbat-allah Ibn Said
أبو الحسن هبة الله بن صاعد بن هبة الله بن إبراهيم البغدادى النصرانى

| birth_date = 1074

| birth_place = Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq

| death_date = 11 April 1165 (aged 92)

| death_place = 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

| notableworks = Marginal commentary on Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine,
Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir,
Maqālah fī al-faṣd

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Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh ({{langx|ar|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.{{Cite journal|last=Meyerhof|first=M.|date=2012-04-24|title=Ibn al-Tilmīd̲h̲|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/ibn-al-tilmidh-SIM_3393?lang=en|journal=Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition|language=en}}{{Citation |last=Käs |first=Fabian |title=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 |date=2023 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/drugs-in-the-medieval-mediterranean/ibn-altilmidhs-book-on-simple-drugs/AE2990B32C3F44DE02302AFA495CFCAF |work=Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge |pages=37–57 |editor-last=Stathakopoulos |editor-first=Dionysios |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/9781009389792.002 |isbn=978-1-009-38979-2 |editor2-last=Bouras-Vallianatos |editor2-first=Petros|url-access=subscription }}

Life

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.{{cite book|last=Chipman|first=Leigh|title=The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo|year=2010|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=978-90-04-17606-5|pages=31–32}} 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.{{cite book |last1=Griffel |first1=Frank |title=The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam |date=8 June 2021 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-088634-9 |page=122 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kc0vEAAAQBAJ |access-date=12 March 2024 |language=en}}

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. 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).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.{{rp|266}}

Works

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

Ibn al-Tilmidh

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