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Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya
al-Razi: Kitab al-Hawi fi al-tibb (The Comprehensive Book on Medicine) from Ray in Iran (925)
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Taken from; Goldenberg David, Scythian-Barbarian : The Permutation of a Classical Topos in Jewish and Christian Texts of Late Antiquity in; Journal of Jewish Studies 1998
He says regarding the young, the women, the dim-witted, as well as all the people living in the extremities of the earth, for instance the Daylamites (1), the Turks, the Zanj and the Habasha,
that the study of philosophy clearly transcends their capacity.
Taken from: منصوری فی الطب by رازی، محمد بن زکریا
(Ambergris); The variety is hard and ripe in the heat brought to Shiraz (2) from Zanzibar, it is said the best is white with a little bid of yellow and the smell of pine…
(1) Daylamites: or Dailamites were an Iranian people inhabiting the Daylam—the mountainous regions of northern Iran on the southwest coast of the Caspian Sea.
(2) Shiraz: Shiraz is a city in south-central Iran, known for its literary history and many gardens. Because of many trade contacts between them and east Africa the Swahili kept calling themselves Shirazi till well into the 20th century.