Faraj ben Salim

Charles of Anjou giving an Arabic manuscript to Faraj for translation, from a medieval illumination.

Faraj ben Sālim (Moses Ferrauto) (Arabic: فرج بن سالم, Hebrew: פרג' בן סלומון), also known as Ferrauto of Girgenti, Moses Farachi of Dirgent,[1] Ferragius, Farragus, or Franchinus, was a Sicilian-Jewish physician and translator who flourished in the second half of the thirteenth century.

  1. ^ "Dirgent" is probably a corruption of the ancient Arabic names (Karkint and Gergent) for Agrigento.