Hunayn ibn Ishaq

Physician

0809 – 0873

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Who was Hunayn ibn Ishaq?

Hunayn ibn Ishaq was a famous and influential Assyrian Nestorian Christian scholar, physician, and scientist, known for his work in translating Greek scientific and medical works into Arabic and Syriac during the heyday of the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate. Ḥunayn ibn Isḥaq was the most productive translator of Greek medical and scientific treatises in his day. He studied Greek and became known among the Arabs as the "Sheikh of the translators." He mastered four languages: Arabic, Syriac, Greek and Persian. His translations did not require corrections. Hunayn’s method was widely followed by later translators. He was originally from southern Iraq but he spent his working life in Baghdad, the center of the great ninth-century Greek-into-Arabic/Syriac translation movement. His fame went far beyond his own community.

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Born
0809
Kufa
Also known as
  • Johannitius
  • Hunayn bin Ishaq
  • Hunein Ibn Ishak
Nationality
  • Iraq
Profession
Died
0873
Baghdad

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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