# Abd al-Rahman III

- id: abd-al-rahman-iii
- name in original script: عبد الرحمن الثالث
- dates: 891–961
- roles: patron

First Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, reigned 912-961. When Constantinople sent him a luxury Dioscorides nobody in al-Andalus could read, he wrote back asking for a Greek tutor, and got one.

## Crossings

- c. 951–962: De Materia Medica into Arabic (patron) [attested]

## Sources

- Ibn Juljul (987). Tabaqat al-atibba wa-l-hukama.