Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani () was a Christian Persian physician, from Gorgan, east of the Caspian Sea, in Iran.

He was the teacher of Avicenna. He wrote an encyclopedic treatise on medicine of one hundred chapters (al-mā'a fi-l-sanā'a al-tabi'iyyah; ), which is one of the earliest Arabic works of its kind and may have been in some respects the model of Avicenna's Qanun.

Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi

He wrote other treatises on measles, on the plague, on the pulse, etc.

Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi

He died in a dust storm in the deserts of Khwarezmia in 1010.

Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi

References

Sources

Carl Brockelmann: Arabische Litteratur (vol. 1, 138, 1898). G. Karmi, A mediaeval compendium of Arabic medicine: Abu Sahl al-Masihi's "Book of the Hundred.", J. Hist. Arabic Sci. vol. 2(2) 270-90 (1978).

Further reading

See also

List of Iranian scientists

People from Gorgan

10th-century Iranian physicians

Members of the Assyrian Church of the East

Botanists of the medieval Islamic world

Iranian Christians