Ubayd Allah ibn Jibril
عبيد الله بن جبريل
1059 CE · 451 AH
A physician, researcher and historian of medicine, knowledgeable about the Christian communities and their doctrines. He belonged to the Bukhtishu family of physicians.
At a glance
- Roles
- Physician · Historian
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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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
Abu Sa'id Ubayd Allah ibn Jibril ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Bakhtishu', a physician, researcher and historian of medicine, of the Bakhtishu' family of physicians 1.
Learning
The encyclopedia describes him as a scholar of the knowledge of the Christians and their sects, and gives his death as 451 AH 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
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ubayd Allah ibn Jibril”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ubayd-allah-ibn-jibril/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.