Ibn Abi Usaybi'a
Ibn Abi Usaybi'a | |
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Born | 1203 Ayyubid Sultanate (in modern Syria) |
Died | January 1270 (age 66) Salkhad, Ayyubid Sultanate (in modern Syria) |
Resting place | Salkhad |
Occupation | physician |
Language | Classical Arabic |
Genre | Biography |
Literary movement | Islamic Golden Age |
Notable works | Lives of the Physicians |
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa Muʾaffaq al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Al-Qāsim Ibn Khalīfa al-Khazrajī (
Biography
Ibn Abi Usaibia was born at Damascus, a member of the Arab Banu Khazraj tribe. The son of a physician, he studied medicine at Damascus and Cairo. In 1236, he was appointed physician to a new hospital in Cairo, but the following year he took up an offer by ruler of Damascus, of a post in Salkhad, near Damascus, where he lived until his death.[1] His only surviving work is Lives of the Physicians. In that work, he mentions another of his works, but it has not survived.[2]
Lives of the Physicians
The title in Arabic, Uyūn ul-Anbāʾ fī Ṭabaqāt al-Aṭibbā (
Editions
The text has been published five times in all. When the first edition by August Müller (Cairo, 1882), published under the pseudonym "Imrū l-Qays",[3] was found to be marred by typos and errors and a corrected version was subsequently issued (Königsberg, 1884).[4] Relying on Müller's work, Niẓār Riḍā published a non-critical edition of the text in Beirut in 1965, which was subsequently reworked by Qāsim Wahhāb for yet another edition issued in Beirut in 1997. ʿĀmir al-Najjār published his own critical edition (not based on Müller) in Cairo in 1996.
A team of scholars from the universities of Oxford and Warwick has published a new critical edition and a full annotated English translation of the Uyūn al-Anbā.
In 2020, a new translation was published by Oxford World's Classics under the name Anecdotes and Antidotes: A Medieval Arabic History of Physicians.[7][8]
See also
References
- ^ public domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ibn Usaibi'a". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 14 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 223. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ a b Roger Pearse (2011), Preface to the Online Edition -- the online edition of the Arabic-to-English translation of Ibn Abi Usaibia's History of Physicians, translated by Lothar Kopf.
- ^ "Lives of the Physicians". Library of Congress.
- ^ Uṣaybiʻah, Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim Ibn Abī (December 12, 1884). "Ibn Abi Useibia". Selbstverlag – via Google Books.
- ^ "A Literary History of Medicine - Ibn Abi Usaybiah- The Best Accounts of the Classes of Physicians - Home". krc2.orient.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-08-05.
- ^ "Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah | Scholarly Editions". scholarlyeditions.brill.com.
- ^ https://www.waterstones.com/book/anecdotes-and-antidotes/ibn-abi-usaybiah/henrietta-sharp-cockrell/9780198827924 [bare URL]
- ISBN 978-0-19-882792-4– via Google Books.
External links
- AlWaraq.net
- English translation of the Lives of the Physicians, translated by L. Kopf, 1954.
- Notes and comments on Ibn Abi Usaibia's work
- A Literary History of Medicine Archived 2015-08-05 at the Wayback Machine on the Oxford/Warwick Project and the new manuscripts of the work
- Brill Scholarly Editions containing a critical text edition, English translation, and essays on Ibn Abi Usaibia's Lives of the Physicians.