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Bukhtishu, Persian Christian physicians of Academy of Gundishapur
Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori (also spelled Bukhtishu and Bukht-Yishu in many a literature) were a family of Nestorian Christian Persian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years. Some of them served as the personal physicians of Caliphs. They spoke the Syriac language, as Syriac was the lingua franca of scholarship in Sassanid Persia. The Sassanid civil law code was in fact translated from Syriac by Bukhtishu.
For example, Jurjis son of Bukht-Yishu was awarded 10,000 dinars by al-Mansur after attending to his malady in 765CE. It is even said that one of the members of this family was received as physician to Imam Sajjad (the 4th Shia holy Imam) during his illness in the events of Karbala.
Like all physicians in the Abbasid courts, they came from the Academy of Gundishapur in Persia, and were well versed in the Greek and Hindi sciences.
Their family was originally from Ahvaz, near Jondishapur. Like all scholars of their day, they eventually moved to the new cosmopolitan city of Baghdad, and later on to Nsibin Northern Syria, which was part of the Persian Empire in the Sassanid era.
Members
There are no known remaining records of the first two members of the family. And the remaining records of the chain start from Jurjis. But the geneological sequence follows as:
Bukhtishu I (بختیشوع اول)
Jibrail I (جِبرائیل اول)
Jurjis (جرجیس)
Bukhtishu II (بختیشوع دوم)
Jabril ibn Bukhtishu (جبرائیل دوم)
Bukhtishu III (بختیشوع سوم)
Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu
Ubeidullah ibn Bukhtishu (عبیدالله اول)
Jibrail III (جبرائیل سوم)
Ubeidullah II (عبیدالله دوم)
Source: wikipedia.org
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