Bakhtshooa Gondishapoori (also spelled Bukhtishu in many a literature) were a family of Nestorian Christian Persian physicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries. Some of them served as the personal physicians of Caliphs.
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Persia, and were well versed in the Greek and Hindi sciences.
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Ahvaz, near Jondishapur.
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Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu (Johannes Bukhtishu) was a 9th century physician from Khuzestan, Persia.
Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishuâ (or Bakhtishuâ) was a member of a prominent family of Nestorian Christian physicians originally from Jundishapur in Khuzastan who worked in Baghdad from the 8th through the 10th centuries.
Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu was the illegitimate son of Jabril Ibn Bukhtishu (d.