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Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (also Hunain or Hunein) (Arabic: أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ʾAbū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn ʾIsḥāq al-ʿIbādī (808–873), known in Latin as Johannitius, was an influential Arab Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist.
Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (Arabic: إسحاق بن حنين) (c. 830 Baghdad, – c. 910-1) was an influential Arab physician and translator, known for writing the first biography of physicians in the Arabic language.
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (born 808, al-Ḥīrah, near Baghdad, Iraq—died 873, Baghdad) was an Arab scholar whose translations of Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, and the Neoplatonists made accessible to Arab philosophers and scientists the significant sources of Greek thought and culture.
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Hunayn ibn Ishaq was a Nestorian Christian mathematician who is most important as a translator, making Greek works available to the Islamic mathematicians.
Mar 30, 2019 · Abu Zayd Hunayn bin Ishaq al Ibadi ranks as the finest medical and scientific mind of the early Abassid era. Born in 809 to an apothecary in Al Hirah, Hunayn went to Baghdad to study medicine as a young man.
Quick Reference. (d. 877) Nestorian Christian who headed the center for translation of Greek texts into Arabic, Bayt al-Hikmah, in Baghdad. Responsible for the creation of a body of work that fostered the spirit of critical inquiry and led to a rigorous approach to philosophy.
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Hunayn ibn Ishaq. 808-873. Arab scholar and physician who translated numerous Greek writings—notably those of Plato (427-347 b.c.) and Aristotle (384-322 b.c.)—on mathematics and science.
