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Abu Sahl Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani (??? ??? ???? ?? ???? ??????? ????????) was a Christian physician, from Gorgan
Gorgan

Gorgan is the capital of the Golestan Province, Iran. It is approximately 400 km from Tehran. It had an estimated population of 241,177 in 2005....
, east of the Caspian Sea
Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the List of lakes by area or a full-fledged sea. It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers ....
, in Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
.

He was the teacher of Avicenna
Avicenna

, known as Abu Ali Sina Balkhi or Ibn Sina and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna , was a Persian people polymath and the foremost Islamic medicine and Early Islamic philosophy of his time....
. He wrote an encyclopedic treatise on medicine of one hundred chapters (al-ma'a fi-l-sana'a al-tabi'iyyah; ), which is one of the earliest Arabic works of its kind and may have been in some respects the model of Avicenna's Qanun.

He wrote other treatises on measles, on the plague, on the pulse, etc.

He died at the age of forty in a dust storm
Dust storm

A dust storm or sandstorm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions and arises when a gust front passes or when the wind force exceeds the threshold value where loose sand and dust are removed from the dry surface....
 in the deserts of Khwarezmia in 999-1000CE.








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Abu Sahl Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani (??? ??? ???? ?? ???? ??????? ????????) was a Christian physician, from Gorgan
Gorgan

Gorgan is the capital of the Golestan Province, Iran. It is approximately 400 km from Tehran. It had an estimated population of 241,177 in 2005....
, east of the Caspian Sea
Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the List of lakes by area or a full-fledged sea. It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers ....
, in Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
.

He was the teacher of Avicenna
Avicenna

, known as Abu Ali Sina Balkhi or Ibn Sina and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna , was a Persian people polymath and the foremost Islamic medicine and Early Islamic philosophy of his time....
. He wrote an encyclopedic treatise on medicine of one hundred chapters (al-ma'a fi-l-sana'a al-tabi'iyyah; ), which is one of the earliest Arabic works of its kind and may have been in some respects the model of Avicenna's Qanun.

He wrote other treatises on measles, on the plague, on the pulse, etc.

He died at the age of forty in a dust storm
Dust storm

A dust storm or sandstorm is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions and arises when a gust front passes or when the wind force exceeds the threshold value where loose sand and dust are removed from the dry surface....
 in the deserts of Khwarezmia in 999-1000CE.

Sources


  • Carl Brockelmann
    Carl Brockelmann

    Carl Brockelmann , German Semitic languages, was the foremost Orientalism of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in University of Wroclaw, Berlin and, from 1903, University of K?nigsberg....
    : Arabische Litteratur (vol. 1, 138, 1898).
  • G. Karmi, A mediaeval compendium of Arabic medicine: Abu Sahl al-Masihi's "Book of the Hundred.", J. Hist. Arabic Sci. vol. 2(2) 270-90 (1978).


See also

  • List of Iranian scientists