Syriac Christian physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher

Amīn al-Dawla Abu'l-Ḥasan Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣaʿīd ibn al-Tilmīdh (Arabic: هبة الله بن صاعد ابن التلميذ; 1074 – 11 April 1165) was a Christian Arab physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher of the medieval Islamic civilization.

Ibn al-Tilmidh worked at the ʻAḍudī hospital in Baghdad where he eventually became its chief physician as well as court physician to the caliph Al-Mustadi, and in charge of licensing physicians in Baghdad. He mastered the Arabic, Persian, Greek and Syriac languages.

He compiled several medical works, the most influential being Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir, a pharmacopeia which became the standard pharmacological work in the hospitals of the Islamic civilization, superseding an earlier work by Sabur ibn Sahl. His poetry included riddles: Abū al-Maʿālī al-Ḥaẓīrī quotes five of them, and a verse solution by al-Tilmīdh to another riddle, in his Kitāb al-iʿjāz fī l-aḥājī wa-l-alghāz (Inimitable Book on Quizzes and Riddles).: 266 

Works

• Marginal commentary on Ibn Sina's "Canon"
• Al-Aqrābādhīn al-Kabir
• Maqālah fī al-faṣd

References

Further reading

• Kahl, Oliver (2007). The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd̲:: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries. Brill. ISBN:978-90-04-15620-3.

Concepts

• Ophthalmology
• Psychology

Works

• Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah
• The Canon of Medicine
• Tacuinum Sanitatis
• Anatomy Charts of the Arabs
• The Book of Healing
• Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye
• De Gradibus
• Al-Tasrif
• Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi
• Adab al-Tabib
• Kamel al-Sanaat al-Tibbyya
• Al-Hawi
• Commentary on Anatomy in Avicenna's Canon
• Lives of the Physicians

Centers

• Al-'Adudi Hospital
• Bimarestan
• Nur al-Din Bimaristan

Influences

• Ancient Greek medicine
• Ancient Iranian medicine
• Ayurveda

Influenced

• Ibn Sina Academy
• Learned medicine
• Medical Renaissance
• Medieval medicine