Matta ibn Yunus

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c. 940 CE · 328 AH

Abu Bishr Matta b. Yunus (d. under al-Radi) — the Nestorian logician of Baghdad; taught Aristotle's Organon to a daily circle in which al-Farabi sat as a pupil, copying seventy volumes of his commentary 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad · Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi · أبو بكر السيبي أحمد بن محمد · القاضي أبو بكر ابن الدقاق البغدادي

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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