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Isaac ben Solomon Israeli

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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ISAAC BEN SOLOMON ISRAELI (9th-loth centuries), Jewish physician and philosopher. A contemporary of Seadiah, he was born and passed his life in North Africa. He died c. 950. At Kairawan, Israeli was court physician; he wrote several medical works in Arabic, and these were afterwards translated into Latin. Similarly his philosophical writings were translated, but his chief renown was in the circle of Moslem authors.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Isaac ben Solomon Israeli'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​i/isaac-ben-solomon-israeli.html. 1910.
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