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Ibn al-Samḥ was the Christian disciple of Yaḥyā b. ‘Adī who transmitted the lecture-course of the Baghdad circle on Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Physics.
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Bonadeo, C.M. (2011). Ibn al-Samḥ. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_230
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