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Ibn Zurʿa, ʿĪsā ibn Isḥāq

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‘Īsā ibn Zur‘a was a Jacobite Christian of the tenth century Baghdad. He was a famous physician and translator from Syriac into Arabic of several Aristotelian works of zoology and logic.

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  1. Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy

    Cecilia Martini Bonadeo

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  1. Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

    Henrik Lagerlund

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Bonadeo, C.M. (2011). Ibn Zurʿa, ʿĪsā ibn Isḥāq. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_237

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