Ephraim Ibn Al-Za'faran

Ephraim ibn al-Za'faran was a Jewish physician who lived in Cairo in the eleventh century. He was renowned for his extensive library of medical and other scientific texts, and at some point was appointed court physician for the Fatimid Caliph Ma'ad al-Mustansir. Ephraim died around the year 1068 CE.

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 Ismail Gorgani 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

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Date of death	1068
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