), called the Spotted (Arabic: al-Abrash), was a Christian natural philosopher and physician active in Baghdad and Khurāsān under the Abbasid Caliphate.
[4] The 13th-century historian Bar Hebraeus says that he was a contemporary of the Patriarch Timothy I of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (727–823) and a member of the Church of the East, that is, he "followed the doctrine of Nestorius".
Alphonse Mingana argued, on the basis of his Edessene origins, that he was probably a convert from either the Melkite or the Syriac Orthodox church.
[3] According to the 13th-century writer Yāqūt al-Hamawī,[3] Job and his son Ibrāhīm both served the Abbasid caliph al-Maʾmūn (813–833) as physicians in Baghdad.
In the early 830s, Job was assigned by the caliph to be the personal physician of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir, governor of Khurāsān.