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Non-Muslim Scholars Group 3 10am
Hasdai ibn Shaprut
He encouraged and supported Jewish science, and he is to be partly credited for helping transfer Jewish knowledge from the academies of Babylonia to Spain.
After becoming court physician to the powerful Umayyad caliph ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān III, Ḥisdai gradually gained eminence in the Arab world, acting as vizier without title.
He was born in Al-Andalus, flourished at the court of Abd al Rahman III, and died at Cordoba; a Hispano-Jewish scholar, physician (to the caliph), translator of Greek into Arabic, and patron of science.
Hunayn Ibn Ishaq
He first worked for the Banu Musa, collecting Greek manuscripts and translating them into Arabic; he then became the leading translator of medical works.
Because of how much he translated, he became a scholar in his own right, making excellent contributions in ophthalmology (he wrote Ten Treatises on Ophthalmology). discussing various illnesses and treatments, as well as other fields of medicine and science.
He was a famous Nestorian physician and one of the greatest scholars of his time.
He was born in Hira. flourished at Jundishapur, then in Bagdad, where he died.
Qusta ibn Luqa
He produced many works of his own, writing mainly medical subjects, but also on mathematics and astronomy.
He was from Baalbek in Syria, he flourished in Bagdad and died in Armenia; a Christian physician, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and translator of Byzantine Greek origin.
Travelling to parts of the Byzantine Empire, he brought back Greek texts and translated them into Arabic.
Isaac Israeli ben Solomon
All his works were written in Arabic and later translated into Hebrew, Latin, and Spanish
He became the physician of the Fatimid caliph, `Ubaid Allah al-Mahdi , at whose request he composed many medical writings
One of the foremost Jewish physicians and philosophers living in the Arab world of his time
Also known as Isaac Israeli the Elder and Isaac Judaeus,
He is regarded as the father of medieval Jewish Neoplatonism
Yahya Masawaih al-Mardini
He worked at the service of the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
Is largely known for his pharmaceutical books
He was a great Syrian Nestorian Christian physician
In his works, he described some of the earliest methods of distilling empyreumatic oils and for the extraction of shale oil.
A method of extracting oil from “some kind of bituminous shale”, one of the first descriptions of extraction of shale oil was described by him in the 10th century.