Ibn Zur'a
Ibn Zur'a (Abu 'Ali 'Isā ibn Ishāq ibn Zur'a, 943–1008) was a medieval physician and philosopher. He was born in Abbasid Baghdad to an Syriac Jacobite Christian family. He was a student of Yahya ibn Adi. He was accused of engaging in trade with the Byzantines and convicted. His possessions were confiscated and he died in Baghdad in 1008.
References
- Marc Bergé, Les Arabes (1978), p. 343.
- Herbert Fergus Thomson, Four Treatises by Isa Ibn Zura (1952).
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