Ibn Abi Usaybi'a

Ibn Abi Usaybi'a
Born1203
Damascus, Ayyubid Sultanate
(in modern Syria)
DiedJanuary 1270 (age 66)
Salkhad, Ayyubid Sultanate
(in modern Syria)
Resting placeSalkhad
Occupationphysician
LanguageClassical Arabic
GenreBiography
Literary movementIslamic Golden Age
Notable worksLives 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.