Amin al-Dawla Ibn al-Tilmidh

أمين الدولة ابن التلميذ

1165 CE · 560 AH

Amin al-Dawla Ibn al-Tilmidh (d. Safar 560, near age 100) — Baghdad's Christian physician-in-chief, head of its Christian community; al-Imad called him 'sultan of the hakims, the seal of medicine'; author of the Aqrabadhin still used by the physicians of his day; famously humble beside his Nizamiyya-adjacent home where he nursed sick fuqaha' 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abu Musa al-Madini · Ali ibn Isma'il al-Abyari · Al-Anbari, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad · al-Azdi al-Qurtubi

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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