Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim
ابن أبي أصيبعة أحمد بن القاسم
c. 1270 CE · 668 AH
A physician and historian of medicine from a Damascene family, author of ʿUyun al-Anba' fi Tabaqat al-Atibba'.
At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
History-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- PhysicianTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ahmad ibn al-Qasim ibn Khalifa ibn Yunus al-Sa'di al-Khazraji, a physician and historian of medicine from a Damascene family. He wrote "Uyun al-Anba' fi Tabaqat al-Atibba'" (Sources of Information on the Classes of Physicians). 1
Death
The encyclopaedia gives his death as around 668 AH (around 1270 CE). The date is approximate and comes from a single source, so it needs an additional source. 1
People and things also explored
Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad· Abu al-Khayr al-Armuni· Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Qasim al-Ahdal
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO, p.131
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, Ahmad ibn al-Qasim”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-abi-usaybia-ahmad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.