Toxicological Trivia from March 24, 2010:  Hasdai Ibn Shaprut from Jaén, then was installed in Medina Azahara and become the Caliph’s physician, reached the highest cultural and political position that no Jews succeeded in the West. He was  born in the year 915, and  owed the translation of the Medical Treaty of Dioscorides to what language;
a) Arabic;
b) Hebrew;
c) Castilian.

Correct answer a.He made it using the monk Nicholas, who played from Greek into Latin, resuming from Latin to Arabic. This complicated translation, according to experts, represented the rebirth of pharmacology in Al-Andalus and by extension the rest of the West. For his mission used his polyglot status dominated the Arab, Latin, Hebrew and romance-and his great knowledge of medicine and pharmacology. Taken from the Spanish article: Remembering Abu Yusuf ben Isaac ibn Hasdai Shaprut