Yusuf Ibn Ismail Al-Kutubi

Yusuf ibn Ismail al-Kutubi known as Ibn al-Kabir (13th - 14th Centuries AD) an Azerbaijani-Iranian scholar and Physician worked as a doctor in the palaces of the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad. He was born in Khoy in West Azarbaijan Province or in Azerbaijan.

He is known for his comprehensive pharmacology titled "Ma la Yasa'u al-Tabiba Jahlahu" (what a physician cannot afford to ignore), often referred to by its shortened title "Jam al-Baghdadi" (Baghdadi Collection), written in Arabic in 1311. Several thousand medicinal herbs, natural drugs and recipes are identified in the compendium.

He wrote that a bandage with a few drops of castor was good for treating headaches. Beverages containing castor oil and vinegar were used to treat abdominal pain.

In his book he described eight different methods for administering aromatherapy:

(1) Use a pillow filled with medicinal plants.
(2) Carry a small pouch filled with dried medicinal plants.
(3) Inhale the boiling decoctions of medicinal herbs.
(4) Inhale the scent of flowers in special gardens.
(5) Hang bunches of healing grasses inside the house.
(6) Breathe the odor of burned medicinal plants.
(7) Use an aromatic ointment.
(8) Take an aromatic bath.

According to al-Kutubi barud or potassium nitrate was called milh al-ha’it (salt of wall) by the common people of Iraq. “It is the salt that creeps on old walls, and they collect it.”

He described saltpeter saying "they use it to make a fire which rises and moves, thus increasing it in lightness and inflammability"

Medicine in the medieval Islamic world
Physicians
7th century
  • Al-Harith ibn Kalada and his son
  • Abu Hafsa Yazid
  • Bukhtishu
  • Masarjawaih
  • Ibn Abi Ramtha al-Tamimi
  • Rufaida Al-Aslamia
  • Ibn Uthal
8th century
  • Bukhtishu family
  • Ja'far al-Sadiq
9th century
  • Albubather
  • Bukhtishu family
  • Jabril ibn Bukhtishu
  • Jābir ibn Hayyān
  • Hunayn ibn Ishaq and his son
  • Yahya ibn Sarafyun
  • Al-Kindi
  • Masawaiyh
  • Sabur ibn Sahl
  • Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari
  • Al-Ruhawi
  • Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu
10th century
  • Qusta ibn Luqa
  • Abu ul-Ala Shirazi
  • Abul Hasan al-Tabari
  • Al-Natili
  • Qumri
  • Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
  • Isaac Israeli ben Solomon
  • Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi
  • Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi
  • Muvaffak
  • Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
  • Ibn Juljul
  • Al-Zahrawi
  • Ibn al-Jazzar
  • Al-Kaŝkarī
  • Ibn Abi al-Ashʿath
  • Ibn al-Batriq
  • Ibrahim ibn Baks
11th century
  • Abu Ubaid Juzjani
  • Alhazen
  • Ali ibn Ridwan
  • Avicenna
  • Ephraim ibn al-Za'faran
  • Ibn al-Wafid
  • Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu
  • Ibn Butlan
  • Ibn al-Kattani
  • Ibn Jazla
  • Masawaih al-Mardini
  • Yusuf al-Ilaqi
  • Ibn Al-Thahabi
  • Ibn Abi Sadiq
  • Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal
12th century
  • Abu al-Bayan ibn al-Mudawwar
  • Ahmad ibn Farrokh
  • Ibn Hubal
  • Zayn al-Din Gorgani
  • Maimonides
  • Serapion the Younger
  • Ibn Zuhr
  • Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Israili
  • Abu Jafar ibn Harun of Trujillo
  • Averroes
  • Ibn Tufail
  • Al-Ghafiqi
  • Ibn Abi al-Hakam
  • Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
  • Samauʼal Al-Maghribī
  • Ibn al-Tilmīdh
  • Ibn Jumay‘
13th century
  • Sa'ad al-Dawla
  • Al-Shahrazuri
  • Rashidun al-Suri
  • Amin al-Din Rashid al-Din Vatvat
  • Avraham son of Rambam
  • Da'ud Abu al-Fadl
  • Al-Dakhwar
  • Ibn Abi Usaibia
  • Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta
  • Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer)
  • Ibn al-Nafis
  • Zakariya al-Qazwini
  • Najib ad-Din-e-Samarqandi
  • Qotb al-Din Shirazi
  • Ibn al-Quff
14th century
  • Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli
  • Al-Nagawri
  • Aqsara'i
  • Zayn-e-Attar
  • Mansur ibn Ilyas
  • Jaghmini
  • Mas‘ud ibn Muhammad Sijzi
  • Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi
  • Nakhshabi
  • Sadid al-Din al-Kazaruni
  • Yusuf ibn Ismail al-Kutubi
  • Ibn al-Khatib
  • Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
15th century
  • Abu Sa'id al-Afif
  • Muhammad Ali Astarabadi
  • Husayni Isfahani
  • Burhan-ud-din Kermani
  • Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu
  • Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Harawi
  • Nurbakhshi
  • Shaykh Muhammad ibn Thaleb
16th century
  • Hakim-e-Gilani
  • Abul Qasim ibn Mohammed al-Ghassani
  • Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf
Concepts
  • Psychology
  • Ophthalmology
Works
  • The Canon of Medicine
  • Anatomy Charts of the Arabs
  • The Book of Healing
  • Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye
  • De Gradibus
  • Al-Tasrif
  • Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi
  • Adab al-Tabib
Centers
  • Bimaristan
  • Nur al-Din Bimaristan
  • Al-'Adudi
Influences
  • Ancient Greek medicine
Influenced
  • Medical Renaissance
  • Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine and Sciences
Persondata
Name al-Kutubi, Yusuf ibn Ismail
Alternative names
Short description Medieval Persian physician
Date of birth
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Date of death
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