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Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib
Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib was a poet, historian, physician and vizier of the Nasrid Emirate of Granada under Yusuf I and Muhammad V. His works include a history of Granada and a treatise arguing that plague spread by contagion. Falling from favour, he fled to Morocco in 1371, was accused of heresy and was murdered in prison in Fez in 1374.
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