patron
Abd al-Rahman III عبد الرحمن الثالث
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 , Arabic Arabic · patron · Cordoba attested
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