JOSEPH BEN AḤMAD IBN ḤASDAI
- JOSEPH BEN AḤMAD IBN ḤASDAI
- JOSEPH BEN AḤMAD IBN ḤASDAI (also known as Ibn
Hasdai; 12th century), student of medicine, born in
Spain of a father who converted to Islam. Joseph emigrated to Egypt,
where the vizier Maʾmūn became his patron. Joseph maintained a
friendship with Ibn Bajjā (Avempace), the Spanish philosopher, with whom
he continued to correspond after his departure from Spain. Among his
works are (1) Al-Sharḥ al-Maʾmūnī (Commentary on
the Oath (Kitāb al Īmān) of Hippocrates). (2) Sharḥ al-Fuṣūl
(Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates). (3)
Fāwāʾīd (useful observations and extracts from
the Commentary of Ali Ibn Riḍwān on the Glaukon of Galen).
(4) Al-Qawl ʿalā Awwal al-Ṣināʿāt
al-Ṣaghīra (Study of book one of Mikrotechnē of
Galen).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Steinschneider, Arab Lit, 148–9; G. Sarton, Introduction to the
History of Science, 2 pt. 1 (1931), 229–30; H. Friedenwald,
The Jews and Medicine (1944), 174, 633.
(Isidore Simon)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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