Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani
Abū 'Ubayd al-Jūzjānī, (d.1070),Persian physician and chronicler from Guzgan.
He was the famous pupil of Avicenna, whom he first met in Gorgan.[2] He spent many years with his master in
Isfahan, becoming his lifetime companion. After Avicenna's death, he completed Avicenna's Autobiography with a concluding section.[3]
The historian
Ibn Abi Usaibia refers Avicenna and his close companion Abu Ubayd lived together the residence of Sheikh al-Raiss (which is the title given to Avicenna) and were used to pass each night on studying one by one the Canon and Shifā's instructions.[4]
See also
- List of Iranian scientists
References
- Ahmad Dallal, The Oxford History of Islam, ed. John L. Esposito, (Oxford University Press, 1999), 171.
- ISBN 0-87395-226-X.
- ISBN 978-0-19-957749-1.
- PMID 23407771.
External links
- Dhanani, Alnoor (2007). "Jūzjānī: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al‐Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al‐Jūzjānī". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 604–5. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)