title: Al-Natili
text: # Al-Natili
  
  Natili. Abu Abdallah Husayn ibn Ibrahim ibn Hasan ibn Khurshid at-Tabari an-Natili (Persian: ابوعبدالله حسین بن حسن بن خُرشید طبری ناتلی | Romanization: Abū ʿAbdallāh Ḥusain ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Khūrshīd aṭ-Ṭabarī an-Nātllī), was a Persian physician from Tabaristan.
  
  He flourished in the 10th century, and was a translator of Greek into Arabic. He dedicated, in 990-991AD, an improved translation of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica to the Prince Abu Ali al-Samjuri.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * Carl Brockelmann: Arabische Litteratur (189, 207).
  