Banu Shakir
بنو شاكر المنجم
The three sons of Shakir who funded the Byzantine book-hunts and Hunayn's missions 1.
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Banu Shakir the astrologers are Muhammad, Ahmad and al-Hasan. They took care to bring books out of the land of the Romans, paid generously, and sent Hunayn ibn Ishaq and others, who brought back rare books and unusual works in philosophy, geometry, music, arithmetic and medicine. 2
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- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p. 339-340
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.339-340
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islam.museum contributors. “Banu Shakir”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/banu-shakir/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.