Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani () was a Christian

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physician,Firoozeh Papan-Matin, ''Beyond death: the mystical teachings of ʻAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadhānī'', (Brill, 2010), 111. from

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, east of the

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, in

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. He was the teacher of

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. He wrote an encyclopedic treatise on medicine of one hundred chapters (''al-mā'a fi-l-sanā'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, and other subjects. He died in a

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in the deserts of Khwarezmia in 1010.

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Carl Brockelmann Carl Brockelmann (17 September 1868 – 6 May 1956) German Semitic studies, Semiticist, was the foremost Orientalism, orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in University of Wrocław, Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, ...

: ''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).

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