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non-Muslims Scholars 9am Section Group 6 - Coggle Diagram
non-Muslims Scholars 9am Section Group 6
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
One of the greatest scholars of his time
Collected Greek manuscripts and translated them into Arabic while working for the Banu Musa
A famous Nestorian physician
Became leading translator of medical works
Made contributions in opthalmology and other fields of medicine and science ("Ten Treatises on Opthalmology")
Qusta ibn Luqa
Of Byzantine Greek origin
Wrote primarily on medical subjects, but also on mathematics and astronomy
Christian physician, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and translator
Hasdai ibn Shaprut
Partly credited for helping transfer Jewish knowledge from the academies of Babylonia to Spain
Encouraged and supported Jewish science
A Hispano-Jewish scholar, physician to the caliph, translator of Greek into Arabic, and patron of science
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon
Became the physician of the Fatimid caliph 'Ubaid Allah al-Mahdi'
"Father of medieval Jewish Neo-Platonism"
Composed many medical writings
A foremost physician and philosopher of his time
Yahya Masawaih al-Mardini / Mesue the Younger
Pharmaceutical books
"De medicins laxativis": book on purgatives and emetics
Descriptions of some of the earliest methods for distilling empyreumatic oils and extracting shale oil can be found in his works
"Antidotarium sive Grabadin medicamentorum": pharmacopeia that remained the standard textbook of pharmacy in the west for centuries
Worked at the service of the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
A great Arab Nestorian Christian physician