Bukhtishu
Sign in to saveframe|Ibn Bakhtishu's ''Manafi' al-Hayawan'' (منافع الحيوان ), dated 12th century. Captions appear in Persian language. The Bukhtīshūʿ (or Boḵtīšūʿ) were a family of either Persian or Syrian Eastern Christian physicians from the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. The Middle Persian-Syriac name which can be found as early as at the beginning of the 5th century refers to the eponymous ancestor of this "Syro-Persian Nestorian family". Some members of the family served as the personal physicians of Caliphs. Jurjis son of Bukht-Yishu was awarded 10,000 din
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14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Members
- Bukhtishu I
- Jibrail I
- Jurjis
- Bukhtishu II
- Jabril ibn Bukhtishu
- Bukhtishu III
- Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu
- Ubeidullah ibn Bukhtishu
- Jibrail III
- See also
- References
- Further reading
frame|Ibn Bakhtishu's ''Manafi' al-Hayawan (منافع الحيوان ), dated 12th century. Captions appear in Persian language. The Bukhtīshūʿ (or Boḵtīšūʿ) were a family of either Persian or Syrian Eastern Christian physicians from the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries, spanning six generations and 250 years. The Middle Persian-Syriac name which can be found as early as at the beginning of the 5th century refers to the eponymous ancestor of this "Syro-Persian Nestorian family". Some members of the family served as the personal physicians of Caliphs. Jurjis son of Bukht-Yishu was awarded 10,000 dinars by al-Mansur after attending to his malady in 765AD. It is even said that one of the members of this family was received as physician to Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, the Shia Imam, during his illness in the events of Karbala.
Like most physicians in the early Abbasid courts, they came from the Academy of Gondishapur in what is now southwest Iran. They were well versed in the Greek and Indian sciences, including those of Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Galen, which they aided in translating while working in Gondishapur.