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Hunayn ibn Ishaq

809 - 873

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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. 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. Ḥunayn ibn Isḥaq was the most productive translator of Greek medical and scientific treatises in his day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hunayn ibn Ishaq has received more than 285,299 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Hunayn ibn Ishaq is the 428th most popular philosopher (up from 431st in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 103rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Iraqi Philosopher.

Hunayn ibn Ishaq was a Muslim scholar who translated many ancient Greek texts into Arabic, including the works of Galen and Hippocrates.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Hunayn ibn Ishaq ranks 428 out of 1,267. Before him are Dhul-Nun al-Misri, Adam Ferguson, Ge Hong, Adolf von Harnack, Pierre d'Ailly, and Bartolus de Saxoferrato. After him are Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, H. L. A. Hart, Henry Suso, Abul A'la Maududi, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and Ronald Dworkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 809, Hunayn ibn Ishaq ranks 1. After him are Emperor Wenzong of Tang, and Emperor Jingzong of Tang. Among people deceased in 873, Hunayn ibn Ishaq ranks 2. Before him is Ivar the Boneless. After him are Banū Mūsā, Vímara Peres, and Emperor Yizong of Tang.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Hunayn ibn Ishaq ranks 105 out of 384. Before him are Al-Nasir (1158), Sin-Muballit (-1900), Ibn Sirin (653), Samsu-iluna (-1792), Ovadia Yosef (1920), and Labashi-Marduk (-550). After him are Parysatis (-500), Shamash-shum-ukin (-650), Ahmad al-Rifaʽi (1118), Al-Mawardi (974), Tukulti-Ninurta I (-1300), and Kerbogha (1100).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Iraq

Among philosophers born in Iraq, Hunayn ibn Ishaq ranks 5. Before him are Al-Kindi (801), Al-Ash'ari (873), Al-Jahiz (775), and Abu Yusuf (731). After him are Diogenes of Babylon (-240), Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (1080), Abu Sulayman Sijistani (932), Ibn Abi'l-Hadid (1190), and Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863).

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