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Abstract
a bestiary tale: text and image of the unicorn in the KIT@B NA { T AL - ÝAYAW@N 17 In 825 the Caliph al-Ma}mun fell gravely ill. His physi- cians, among them Yuhanna ibn Masawayh, were un- able to cure him, and he was advised to summon Jibra}il ibn Bakhtishu{ ibn Jurjis, who “changed the treatment completely, ” after which the illness dimin- ished so rapidly that in three days the caliph was cured. Al-Ma}mun rewarded Ibn Bakhtishu{ with “a million dirhams and a thousand measures ( kurr ) of grain. ” 1 Like Yuhanna ibn Masawayh, Jibra}il ibn Bakhtishu{ was a Nestorian, and despite the contrast in their approaches to this particular case, both had received their training at the famous School of Medicine at Jundishapur. 2 In fact, Jibra}il ibn Bakhtishu{ belonged to an illustrious dynasty of doctors several generations of which were associated with the School, and he was by no means the only one to serve an Abbasid caliph, having been preceded by his grandfather Jurjis ibn Jibra}il (d. ca. 771), who was personal physician to al- Mansur (r. 754–75). 3 Of the later members of the family, {Ubayd Allah ibn Jibra}il may be
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Published: Jan 1, 2003