Published in Journal of medical biography
Tayādhūq, also known as Theodocus/Théodoros (d. early 8th century AD), was educated in the Gondēs̲h̲āpūr School and served the Sassanid kings. During this period, he contacted the Umayyad court and became the physician of Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf (d. 715 AD), the general governor of the Eastern regions of the caliphate. In addition to his knowledge on the ...
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When Kavadh I seized power as King of Sassanid dynasty in the late 5th century Persia was entangled withdrought;as some Sassanid nobles were oppressing low class people and influenceof Zoroastrian clergies was an indirect threat to royal court and King.Kavadh was desperate to undertake a painstaking reform within political and social framework of h...
We provide here the first Spanish translation of the report of the embassy of Zemarcus of Cilicia, a Byzantine ambassador, who travelled between 569 and 571 to the West of China and carried out a diplomatic mission whose results were decisive for the history of the Near East and Europe. The translation is accompanied by a historical and geographica...
Published in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set
