Article II of al-Masihi's Al-Tibb al-Kulli (a treatise on medicine). Copy created in western Iran or Anatolia, dated 1232-3

Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani (Persian: ابو سهل عيسى‌ بن‌ يحيى مسيحی گرگانی) was a Christian Persian physician, from Gorgan, east of the Caspian Sea, in Iran.

He was the teacher of Avicenna. He wrote an encyclopedic treatise on medicine of one hundred chapters (al-mā'a fi-l-sanā'a al-tabi'iyyah; Arabic: المائة في الصناعة الطبيعية), 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 in a dust storm in the deserts of Khwarezmia in 1010.

Contents

• 1 References
• 2 Sources
• 3 Further reading
• 4 See also

References

Sources

• Carl Brockelmann: 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).

Further reading

• Savage-Smith, Emilie (2021). "ʿĪsā b. Yaḥyā l-Masīḥī". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Brill Online. ISSN:1873-9830.

See also

• List of Iranian scientists

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