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. Ibn Sina, the famous Persian physician, refers in his book the Canon of Medicine to them as Syriac. 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.

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  • 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. Ibn Sina, the famous Persian physician, refers in his book the Canon of Medicine to them as Syriac. 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 during his illness in the events of Karbala. Like all physicians in the Abbasid courts, they came from the Academy of Gundishapur in Persia (in modern-day southwestern Iran). They were well versed in the Greek and Hindi sciences, including those of Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, and Galen, which they aided in translating while working in Gondeshapur. 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. The continuing welcome received by the Nestorian Christian Bukhtishus into the court of Baghdad can be partially attributed to Yahya al-Barmaki, the vizier and mentor to Harun al-Rashid before his son, Jafar, became vizier. Yahya’s patronage to the academy and hospital in Gondeshapur helped assure the promotion and growth of astronomy, medicine, and philosophy, not only in Persia but also in the Abbasid empire in general.
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  • 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. Ibn Sina, the famous Persian physician, refers in his book the Canon of Medicine to them as Syriac. 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.
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  • Bukhtishu
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