scholar · patron
Hasdai ibn Shaprut חסדאי אבן שפרוט
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.
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- c. 951–962 De Materia Medica , Arabic Arabic · scholar · Cordoba attested
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