Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi was an influential Iraqi Arab Church of the East Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist.
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Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi was an influential Iraqi Arab Church of the East Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the apex of the Islamic Abbasid era, he worked with a group of translators, among whom were Abū 'Uthmān al-Dimashqi, Ibn Mūsā al-Nawbakhti, and Thābit ibn Qurra, to translate books of philosophy and classical Greek and Persian texts into Arabic and Syriac.
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Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 808 to 873 · aged 65
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