# Hasdai ibn Shaprut

- id: hasdai-ibn-shaprut
- name in original script: חסדאי אבן שפרוט
- dates: c. 915–970
- roles: scholar, patron

Jewish physician, diplomat and de facto foreign minister to Abd al-Rahman III, and head of Iberia's Jewish community. He presided over the Cordoba circle that corrected the Arabic Dioscorides against the Byzantine gift manuscript.

## Crossings

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

## Sources

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