Ibn Abi Usaybi'a | |
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| Born | 1203 Damascus, Ayyubid Sultanate (in modern Syria) |
| Died | January 1270 (age 66) Salkhad, Ayyubid Sultanate (in modern Syria) |
| Resting place | Salkhad |
| Occupation | physician |
| Language | Classical Arabic |
| Genre | Biography |
| Literary movement | Islamic Golden Age |
| Notable works | Lives of the Physicians |
Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa Muʾaffaq al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad Ibn Al-Qāsim Ibn Khalīfa al-Khazrajī (Arabic: ابن أبي أصيبعة; 1203–1270), commonly referred to as Ibn Abi Usaibia (also Usaibi'ah, Usaybea, Usaibi`a, Usaybiʿah, etc.), was a physician from Syria in the 13th century CE. He compiled a biographical encyclopedia of notable physicians, from the Greeks, Romans and Indians up to the year 650AH/1252AD in the Islamic era.