Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Israili ( ar, يعقوب بن إسحاق الاسرائيلي; died 1208 CE
) was a 12th-century
Egyptian
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* Egyptians, a national group in North Africa
** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of ...
Jewish
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
physician.
Works
* ''"Treatise of the Errors of the Physicians in Damascus"'': on the improper medical care he observed during a visit to
Damascus.
In addition,
Ibn Abi Usaibia
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa Muʾaffaq al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Al-Qāsim Ibn Khalīfa al-Khazrajī ( ar, ابن أبي أصيبعة; 1203–1270), commonly referred to as Ibn Abi Usaibia (also ''Usaibi'ah, Usaybea, Usaibi`a, Usaybiʿah'' ...
recorded that Ya'qub wrote the following works:
* ''"Maḳalah fi Kawanîn Ṭabiyah"'' (Treatise on the Canons of Medicine)
* ''"Kitab al-Nazh"'' (Book of Pleasure)
* ''"Kitab fi Mizaj Dimashka"'' (Book Containing Three Treatises)
* ''"Masail Ṭabiyah"'' (Questions of Medicine)
References
1208 deaths
Medieval Jewish physicians of Egypt
12th-century Egyptian physicians
12th-century Jews
Year of birth unknown
Physicians from the Ayyubid Sultanate
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