- Ibn Jazla
Abu ali Yahya ibn Isa Ibn Jazla Al Baghdadi or Ibn Jazlah (
Arabic ,أبو يحيى ابن عيسى بن جزله), latinized as Buhahylyha Bingezla, was an 11th-century physician ofBaghdad and author of an influential treatise on regimen that was translated intoLatin in 1280AD by the SicilianJewish physicianFaraj ben Salem .Biography
Ibn Jazla was born of Christian Nestorian parents at
Baghdad . He converted toIslam in 1074. He died in 1100 under the tutelage of Abu `Ali ibn Al-Walid Al-Maghribi.Works
His "Taqwim al-Abdan fi Dadbir al-Insan" (dispositio corporum de constittutione hominis, Tacuin agritudinum), as the name implies: tables in which diseases are arranged like the stars in astronomical tables, was translated into Latin.
There is a story which says that he was one of the physicians to
Charlemagne and that he wrote "Tables" or "Tacuin" at the instigation of the latter. [Edward G. Browne (1921), "Arabian Medicine", pp. 60-1.] This story has no historical foundation unless Ibn Jazla was born two centuries earlier, for indeed,Charlemagne was emperor up to 814. The Tacuin was translated by the JewFaraj ben Salim and the Latin version was published in 1532. A German translation was published atStrasbourg in 1533 byHans Schotte .Ibn Jazla also wrote another work, "Al-Minhaj fi Al-Adwiah Al-Murakkabah", (Methodology of Compound Drugs), which was translated by
Jambolinus and was known in Latin translation as the Cibis et medicines simplicibus.Late in life he wrote a treatise in praise of Islam and criticising
Christianity andJudaism .References
* Donald Campbell (1926), "Arabian Medicine and its Influence on the Middle Ages, Vol. 1". London: Trübner. Reissued by
Routledge , 1974, 2000. ISBN 0415244625. p. 82.External links
* [http://www.abocamuseum.it/uk/bibliothecaantiqua/Book_View.asp?Id_Book=627 Tacuini aegritudinum et Morborum ferme omnium corporis humani, cum curis eorundem] . Online scanned version of the 1532 Latin printed translation.
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