Masarjis

ماسرجيس

Masarjis — the Syriac-Arabic medical translator 1

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Masarjis, a physician who translated from Syriac into Arabic, as Ibn al-Nadim relates. 2

His books

He wrote The Powers of Foods and Their Benefits and Harms and The Powers of Drugs and Their Benefits and Harms. 2

He translated from Syriac the Kunnash of Ahrun the priest, and added two treatises to its thirty chapters. 2

Sources

  1. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
  2. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.413
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