Nazif ibn Yumn al-qass al-Rūmī al-Baghdādī (died 990) was a

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Kraemer, Joel L. (1992). Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam: The Cultural Revival During the Buyid Age. BRILL. p. 132. priest, philosopher and physician. He flourished under the

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''emir

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. ''He was also a translator of

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, translating the Tenth book of

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. (H. Suter: Mathematiker, 68, 1900).

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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