Masawaiyh

De consolatione medicinarum, 1475

Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (circa 777–857), (Arabic: يوحنا بن ماسويه), also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Janus Damascenus,[1] or Mesue, Masuya, Mesue Major, Msuya, and Mesuë the Elder was a Persian[2] or Assyrian East Syriac Christian physician[3][4] from the Academy of Gundishapur. According to The Canon of Medicine for Avicenna and 'Uyun al-Anba for the medieval Arabic historian Ibn Abi Usaybi'a, Masawaiyh's father was Assyrian and his mother was Slavic.[5]

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  2. ^ Irwin, Robert, ed. (2010). The new Cambridge history of Islam, Volume 4 (1. publ. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 663. ISBN 978-0-521-83824-5.
  3. ^ Beeston, Alfred Felix Landon (1983). Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period. Cambridge University Press. p. 501. ISBN 978-0-521-24015-4. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
  4. ^ "Compendium of Medical Texts by Mesue, with Additional Writings by Various Authors". World Digital Library. Retrieved 2014-03-01.
  5. ^ Dunlop, D. M. (1971). Arab civilization to A.D. 1500, Part 1500. the University of Michigan. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-582-50273-4.