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References

* Nasrallah, J., ''Naẓīf Ibn Yumn: médecin, traducteur et théologien melkite du Xe siècle'', in: Arabica 21 (1974): 303-312. * Samir, S. Kh., ''Un traité du cheikh Abū ‘Alī Naẓīf ibn Yumn sur l’accord des chrétiens entre eux malgré leur désaccord dans l’expression'', in: Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 51 (1990): 329–343. * Seleznyov, Nikolai N.,
"Poslanie o edinstve" bagdadskogo mel’kita v sostave entsiklopedicheskogo "Svoda" arabojazychnogo kopta XIII veka
', in: Gosudarstvo, religija, tserkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom 3 (Moscow, 2010): 151-156. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nazif Yumn Qass 990 deaths 10th-century physicians Year of birth unknown Physicians of the medieval Islamic world 10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate Scholars under the Buyid dynasty

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