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| 838 births | |
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| 870 deaths | |
| jewish scientists | |
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| ancient and medieval physicians | |
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Ali was from a well-known Jewish family of Merv in Tabaristan (thus his name ''al-Tabari'' "from Tabaristan") but converted to Islam, a Hakim . He was proficient in Syriac and Greek , the two sources for the medical tradition of Antiquity, which was lost to medieval Europe, and versed in fine calligraphy. His ''Firdous al-Hikmat'' (Paradise of Wisdom), which he wrote in Arabic but also translated into Syriac to give it wider usefulness, was in seven sections. The information in ''Firdous al-Hikmat'' was never transmitted its information to the West because it was not edited until the 20th century, when Mohammed Zubair Siddiqui assembled an edition, using the five surviving partial manuscripts. There is still no English translation. He was the first translator of the Almagest into Arabic. He has 4 works in total attributed to him. SOURCES
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