Ibn Abi Usaibi?a

Ibn Abi Usaibi ʿ a ( Arabic ابن أبي أصيبعة, DMG Ibn Abī Uṣaibi ʿ a, * after 1194 in Damascus, † 1270 in Salkhad ) was an Arab physician and biographer of the 13th century. His full name was Muwaffaq ad - Dīn Abū al - ʿ Abbās Ahmad ibn al - Qāsim ibn Khalifa ibn Yūnus ash- ski ʿ rī al - Chazradschī / موفق الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن القاسم بن خليفة بن يونس الشعري الخزرجي / Muwaffaq ad - Dīn Abū l - ʿ Abbās Aḥmad b. al - Qāsim b. Halifa b. Yūnus aš - Ši rī ʿ al - Ḫazraǧī. In addition to his medical work, he wrote a well-known collection of 380 biographies mainly Muslim physicians and scientists.

Life

Ibn Abi ʿ a Usaibi came from a family of doctors. He studied medicine at Damascus and was doing botany lessons of Ibn al - Baitar. Ibn Abi ʿ a Usaibi worked in Damascus Nuri Hospital. Later he moved to the Nasir hospital in Cairo. In 1236, he entered the service of ʿ Izz ad-Din al -Mu ʿ Aibak Azzami in Salkhad, where he died in 1270.

Work

Ibn Abi Usaibi ʿ a was known for his collection of biographies عيون الأنباء في طبقات الأطباء / Uyūn ʿ al - Anba ʾ fī al - Tabaqat aṭibbā ʾ ( "Sources of News of the doctors generations "). The book consists of 15 chapters and deals with the origins of medicine and the biographies of important doctors and scientists, including Greeks, Arabs, Persians and Indians. It contains, for example, biographies of Avicenna, al -Farabi, Ibn Rushd, Galen and Hippocrates and also grants insights into the function and operation of the Oriental medicine in the 13th century. It consists of 15 chapters and is based on earlier biographical work, for example by Ibn Dschuldschul. Ibn Abi ʿ a Usaibi wrote another, but lost works on issues of medicine. The book was published in 1884 Europe by August Müller ( Ibn abi Useibia, Konigsberg 1884).