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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.
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. Biography. Hunayn ibn Ishaq is most famous as a translator. He was not a mathematician but trained in medicine and made his original contributions to the subject.
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Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johannitius) 808-873. Arab Scholar and Physician. H unayn ibn Ishaq, known in the West as Johannitius, is important primarily for his work as a translator: it was through his efforts that numerous writings from ancient Greece, which he translated into Arabic, were preserved.
Oct 18, 2018 · Hunain ibn Ishaq: Prominent place in the history of Islamic medicine Hunain was recognized as an accurate, astute and reliable translator. He travelled widely to seek out preserved Greek manuscripts.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq808-873 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. A member of the House of Wisdom founded by the caliph al-Ma'mun (786-833), Hunayn probably took part in an expedition to purchase manuscripts from Byzantium.
(200) Abu Zayd Hunayn Ibn Ishaq al-‘Ibadi, the celebrated physician, was the most eminent man of his time in the art of medicine. He possessed a perfect acquaintance with the language of the Yunanis (Greeks), and it was by him that the work of Euclid was translated into Arabic.
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