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 "label": {
  "ar": "يوحنا بن ماسويه",
  "en": "Yuhanna Ibn Masawayh"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "يوحنا بن ماسويه ممن أنفذ إلى بلد الروم في رواية {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 339}.، وكان فاضلا طبيبا مقدما عند الملوك عالما مصنفا خدم المأمون والمعتصم والواثق والمتوكل، وعبث ابن حمدون النديم بابن ماسويه بحضرة المتوكل فقال له ابن ماسويه لو أن مكان ما فيك من الجهل عقل ثم قسم على مائة خنفساء لكانت كل واحدة منهن أعقل من أرستاليس {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 411}",
  "en": "Yuhanna b. Masawayh — reported among those sent to Byzantium {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim}"
 },
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  }
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يوحنا بن ماسويه طبيب مقدَّم عند الملوك، عالم مصنِّف، وصفه ابن النديم بالفضل. خدم المأمون والمعتصم والواثق والمتوكل. وذُكر أنه ممن أُنفذوا إلى بلاد الروم في إحدى الروايات. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.339}\n\nومن أخباره أن ابن حمدون النديم عبث به في حضرة المتوكل، فردّ عليه ابن ماسويه ردّاً لاذعاً ذكره ابن النديم. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.411}"
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
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   }
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Yuhanna ibn Masawayh, a senior physician to kings and a prolific scholar. Ibn al-Nadim described him as excellent. He served al-Ma'mun, al-Mu'tasim, al-Wathiq and al-Mutawakkil. It is reported that he was among those sent to the lands of the Byzantines in one of the reports {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.339}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "An anecdote",
     "markdown": "Among his reports is that Ibn Hamdun, the boon-companion, mocked him in the presence of al-Mutawakkil, and Ibn Masawayh answered him with a sharp reply, which Ibn al-Nadim records {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p.411}."
    }
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    "id": "person/yuhanna-ibn-masawayh",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
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   "to": "building/bayt-al-hikma",
   "type": "related_to",
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   "note": "ولي ترجمة الكتب الطبية",
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 "related": [
  "person/abd-allah-al-mamun",
  "person/harun-al-rashid",
  "person/sahl-ibn-harun",
  "person/salm-sahib-bayt-al-hikma",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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