From my Notebooks: Masih bin Hakam, a Jewish-Christian (?) Physician of the Early Ninth Century
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عنوان ژورنال: Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1553-3956
DOI: 10.1353/ale.2004.0007