Nazif ibn Yumn al-qass
al-Rūmī al-Baghdādī (died 990) was a Melkite Christian priest, philosopher and physician.
He flourished under
the Buyid emir Adud al-Dawla. He was also a
translator of Greek into Arabic, translating the Tenth book
of Euclid. (H. Suter: Mathematiker, 68, 1900).
Abū ʿAlī Naẓīf ibn Yumn
is variously identified in the primary sources as al-mutaṭabbib (the
medical practitioner), al-qass al-Rūmī (the Melkite priest),
and al-Baghdādī (from Baghdad). While there is evidence that
he practiced medicine for a time in Shirāz (see Nasrallah, ‘Naẓīf’, p. 306),
sometime after 870 he made his way to Baghdad, where he became a physician to
the great Būyid emir ʿAḍu…
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