Yuhanna ibn Masawaih,, also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Janus Damascenus, or Mesue, Masuya, Mesue Major, Msuya, and Mesuë the Elder was a Persian physician, trained by Jabril ibn Buk
Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi was an influential Iraqi Arab Church of the East Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the apex of the Islamic Abbasid era, he worked with a group o
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…discussed subjects with his pupils. Ibn Masawayh attracted considerable audiences, having acquired a reputation for repartee. He was also the teacher of Hunayn ibn Ishaq. He translated various Greek medical works into Syriac, but wrote his own work in Arabic. Apes were supplied to him by Caliph al-Mu'tasim for dissection…
Iluminure from the Hunayn ibn-Ishaq al-'Ibadi manuscript of the Isagoge
The eye according to Hunain ibn Ishaq. From a "Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye" manuscript dated c. 1200.