Qusta ibn Luqa
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Qusta ibn Luqa (820-912) (Costa ben Luca, Constabulus)[1]. was a Melkite physician, scientist and translator, of Greek extraction. He was born in Baalbek. Travelling to parts of the Byzantine Empire, he brought back Greek texts and translated them into Arabic.
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- ^ Nancy G. Siraisi, Medicine and the Italian Universities, 1250-1600 (Brill Academic Publishers, 2001), p 134.
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