Nazif ibn Yumn al-qass al-Rūmī al-Baghdādī (died 990) was a Melkite Christian priest, philosopher and physician. He flourished under the Buyid emir Adud al-Dawla. He was also a translator of Greek into Arabic, translating the Tenth book of Euclid. (H. Suter: Mathematiker, 68, 1900). References Further reading Nasrallah, J., Naẓīf Ibn Yumn: médecin, traducteur et théologien melkite du Xe siècle, in: Arabica 21 (1974): 303-312. Samir, S. Kh., Un traité du cheikh Abū ‘Alī Naẓīf ibn Yumn sur l’accord des chrétiens entre eux malgré leur désaccord dans l’expression, in: Mélanges de l’Université Saint-Joseph 51 (1990): 329–343. Seleznyov, Nikolai N., "Poslanie o edinstve" bagdadskogo mel’kita v sostave entsiklopedicheskogo "Svoda" arabojazychnogo kopta XIII veka, in: Gosudarstvo, religija, tserkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom 3 (Moscow, 2010): 151-156. 990 deaths 10th-century physicians Year of birth unknown Physicians of the medieval Islamic world 10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate Scholars under the Buyid dynasty