Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani

Abu Ubayd Abd al - Wahid ibn Muhammad al- Dschuzdschani (* 980, † after 1037, Latinized Sorsanus in Zedler Arsanus; Authorized GND: ʿ Abd -al- Wahid Ǧuzǧānī ) was a Persian physician and both students and biographer of Avicenna.

Life

He came from Dschuzdschan in today's Afghanistan and came from an unknown reason to Gorgan on the Caspian Sea, where he became a pupil of Avicenna. This he accompanied them to Ray, Hamadan, and finally to Isfahan, where he worked until his death with him. His biography of Avicenna, which is linked to an autobiographical writing Avicenna and this continues to this day is the most important source on the life of Avicenna.

Short, only a few lines comprehensive biographical information on the basis of this biography circulated in the Latin Avicenna spending since the beginning of the 16th century. As then in the estate of Andrea Alpago found an extensive Arabic handwriting of the text, let Niccolò Massa them from one for Venetian merchants make, apparently baptized Arabic interpreter named Marcus Fadella into Italian ( " vulgari sermone " ) translate and produced by this template own Latin translation, the medicinae as Vita ( ipsius ) Avicennae ex Sorsano Arabe ejus Discipulo since the great Avicenna issue of Rinius ( 1556 ) regularly the Latin editions of Avicenna's Canon has been added and so much helped in the western world in the Latin middle Ages arisen idea of ​​the " prince " or "king" Avicenna correct.

Reception

Noah Gordon has described in his novel The Medicus al - Dschuzdschanis work at the side of his great teacher Ibn Sina ( Avicenna ). Gilbert Sinoué told in 1989 in his novel The Road to Isfahan the life of Ibn Sina based on the writings of his disciple al - Juzjanis.

Translations

• Soheil M. Afnan (ed.): Avicenna: his life and works. Allen & Unwin, London 1958.
• William E. Gohlman (ed.): The life of Ibn Sina: a critical edition and annotated translation. State University of New York Press, Albany ( NY) 1974, ISBN 0-87395 -226 X
• Konrad Göhl: The Vita Avicennae of Sorsanus or al - Dschusadschani, Latin and German. In: Konrad Göhl and Johannes Gottfried Mayer ( ed.): editions and studies of Latin and German technical prose of the Middle Ages: Festschrift for Gundolf wedge. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-8260-1851-6 ( = texts and knowledge, Volume 3 ), pp. 317-337
• Miguel Cruz Hernández ( Eds. ): La vida de Avicenna introducción como a su pensamiento. Anthema, Salamanca 1997, ISBN 84-922437-2-4