List of Christian scientists and scholars of the medieval Islamic world
This is a list of Christian scientists and scholars from the Muslim world and Spain (Al-Andalus) who lived during medieval Islam up until the beginning of the modern age. Christian converts to Islam are also included.
The following Muslim naming articles are not used for indexing:
- Al - the
- ibn, bin, banu - son of
- abu - father of, the one with
A
- Aaron of Alexandria a physician active in the 7th century. His works were translated into Arabic and Syriac, and were used later by al-Razi.
- Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu (940–1058) Syriac physician.[1]
- Athanasius II Baldoyo Syriac Orthodox historian and Patriarch of Antioch.[2]
- Ammar al-Basri 9th-century East Syrian theologian and apologist.[3]
- Anthony of Tagrit 9th-century West Syrian Syriac theologian and Rhetorician.[4]
- Abdisho bar Berika (died 1318) Syriac writer and bishop.[5]
B
- Bukhtishu (7th-9th centuries) family of syriac Christian physicians.[6][7][8][9]
- ibn Batriq (877–940) physician and melkite Patriarch of Alexandria.[10]
- Ibn Butlan (1038, 1075) Arab Nestorian Christian physician.[11]
- Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus (870–20 June 940) Nestorian Christian philosopher and translator.[12]
D
- Dionysius I Telmaharoyo (died 845) Syriac Orthodox historian Patriarch of Antioch.[13]
G
- Gerasimos, Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Symeon (fl. between 9th and 13th centuries), knowledgeable Christian apologist
H
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809–873) Arab Christian scholar, physician, and scientist.[14][15][16]
I
- Ishaq ibn Hunayn (c. 830 – c. 910-1) Arab Christian physician and translator.
- Ishodad of Merv (fl. 850 AD) Syriac theologian and writer.[17]
J
- Jabril ibn Bukhtishu 8th century Nestorian physician.[18]
- Jacob Bar-Salibi most prolific writer in the Syriac Orthodox Church of the twelfth century.[19]
- Jacob of Edessa (c. 640 – 5 June 708) Syriac apologist and philosopher.[20]
- Job of Edessa, a Christian natural philosopher and physician active in Baghdad and Khurāsān under the Abbasid Caliphate. He played an important role in transmitting Greek science to the Islamic world through his translations into Syriac.
- John III of the Sedre theologian.[21]
- John bar Penkaye 7th century historian.[22]
K
- Abu Yûsuf ibn Ishâq al-Kindī Arab Christian scholar and Apologist
M
- Masawaiyh (circa 777–857) Nestorian Christian physician.[23][24]
- Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi Persian Christian physician.[25]
- Masawaih al-Mardini Nestorian Christian physician.[26]
- Michael the Syrian (died 1199 AD) Syriac Orthodox Chronologist and Patriarchs of Antioch.[27]
N
Q
- Qusta ibn Luqa (820–912) Syrian Melkite physician, scientist and translator.[29]
- Ibn al-Qilai (1447–1516) Lebanese Maronite historian, theologian and poet.
R
- Ishaq bin Ali al-Rohawi 9th-century Arab physician and the author of the first medical ethics book in Arabic medicine.[30]
- Abu Raita al-Takriti Syriac Orthodox theologian and apologist.[31]
S
- Shapur ibn Sahl (died 869 CE) Persian Christian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur.[32]
- Salmawaih ibn Bunan (died 840) Assyrian Nestorian Christian physician and translator.[33]
- Serapion the Younger.
- Sahl ibn Bishr (c. 786–845?) Syriac Christian astrologer, astronomer and mathematician.[34]
T
- Ibn al-Tilmīdh (1074–1165) Syriac Christian physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher.[35]
- Theodosius Romanus (died 1 June 896) Syriac Orthodox translator and Patriarch of Antioch.
- Theodore Abu Qurrah (c. 750 – c. 823) Orthodox Christian theologian and writer.[36]
- Thomas of Marga 9th century East Syrian bishop and author of an important monastic history in Syriac.
U
Y
- Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century) Syriac physician.
- Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu (9th-century) Nestorian Christian physician.[38]
- Yahya Ibn al-Batriq Syrian astronomer and translator.[39]
- Yahya ibn Adi (893–974) Syriac Jacobite philosopher, theologian and translator.[40]
Z
- Ibn Zur'a (943–1008) Syriac Jacobite Christian physician and philosopher.
References
- ^ "Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts: Greek Influences". Nlm.nih.gov. 1998-04-15. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
- ^ Barsoum (2003), pp. 331–333.
- ^ Thomas 2003, pp. 61
- ^ Schadé, Johannes P. (2006). Encyclopedia of World Religions. Foreign Media Group. p. 63. ISBN 978-1-60136-000-7. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
- ^ Lavenant, René (1919). Abdīšō Berika bar. Vol. 3.
- ^ Bonner, Bonner; Ener, Mine; Singer, Amy (2003). Poverty and charity in Middle Eastern contexts. SUNY Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-7914-5737-5.
- ^ Ruano, Eloy Benito; Burgos, Manuel Espadas (1992). 17e Congrès international des sciences historiques: Madrid, du 26 août au 2 septembre 1990. Comité international des sciences historiques. p. 527. ISBN 978-84-600-8154-8.
- ^ Frye, R.N., ed. (1975). The Cambridge history of Iran (Repr. ed.). London: Cambridge U.P. p. 415. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6.
Among the Christians also there were some of Persian origin or at least of immediate Persian background, among whom the most important are the Bukhtyishu' and Masuya (Masawaih) families. The members of the Bukhtyishu* family were directors of the Jundishapur hospital and produced many outstanding physicians. One of them, Jirjls, was called to Baghdad by the 'Abbasid caliph al-Mansur, to cure his dyspepsia.
- ^ Philip Jenkins. The Lost History of Christianity. Harper One. 2008. ISBN 0061472808.
- ^ Griffith, Sidney H. (15 December 1998). "Eutychius of Alexandria". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
- ^ Loudon, Irvine (2002-03-07). Western Medicine: An Illustrated History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199248131. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ^ Street, Tony (1 January 2015). Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic: Farabian Aristotelianism. Retrieved 13 June 2016 – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- ^ Barsoum (2003)
- ^ G., Strohmaier (24 April 2012). "Ḥunayn b. Isḥāḳ al-ʿIbādī". Encyclopaedia of Islam.
- ^ "Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq | Arab scholar". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ^ Esposito, John L. (2000). The Oxford History of Islam. Oxford University Press. p. 160.:"The most famous of these translators was a Nestorian (Christian) Assyrian by the name of Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (808–73)."
- ^ Guscin 2016, p. 156.
- ^ Anna Contadini, 'A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān (British Library, or. 2784)', Muqarnas, 20 (2003), 17-33 (p. 17), https://www.jstor.org/stable/1523325.
- ^ Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "St. Jacob (James) of Edessa (+ June 5th, 708)".
- ^ Mazzola (2018), p. 358.
- ^ S. Brock, A brief outline of Syriac Literature, Moran Etho 9, Kottayam, Kerala: SEERI (1997), pp.56-57, 135
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