Abū ʿAlī ʿĪsā ibn Isḥāq ibn Zurʿa (; 943–1008) was a medieval physician and philosopher. He was born in

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to a Syriac Jacobite Christian family. He was a student of

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. He was accused of engaging in trade with the Byzantines and convicted. His possessions were confiscated and he died in Baghdad in 1008. Ibn Zurʿa may be the philosopher "Antecer" cited by

Pedro Gallego Pedro González Pérez (c. 1197 – 19 November 1267), known as Pedro Gallego ( la, Petrus Gallecus or ''Gallegus''), was a Franciscan scholar and prelate. He was the first bishop of Cartagena from the diocese's restoration in 1248 until ...

in his

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works of the 13th century, if the latter is a garbled version of Avençer.Hugo Marquant
"Pedro Gallego OFM (†1267) y la ciencia: ¿Escritor, compilador, traductor? Una reflexión traductológica"
in Antonio Bueno García (ed.), ''La Labor de traducción de los franciscanos'' (Editorial Cisneros, 2013), pp. 127–144, at p. 13 of the PDF.

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*Marc Bergé, ''Les Arabes'' (1978), p. 343. *Herbert Fergus Thomson, ''Four Treatises by Isa Ibn Zura'' (1952). * 10th-century philosophers Aristotelian philosophers Christian philosophers Syriac–Arabic translators Syriac Orthodox Christians People from Baghdad 943 births 1008 deaths 10th-century Arabic writers Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate Christianity in the Abbasid Caliphate {{Asia-philosopher-stub