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Dunash ben Tamim
 
 
(d´näsh bn tä´mm) (KEY)  or Dunash ibn Tamim, c.900–c.960, Hebrew scholar, an astronomer and physician of North Africa. A pioneer in the field of scientific comparative philology, he tried to demonstrate that Arabic was merely a corrupt form of the purer Hebrew.
 
 
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