Hunayn ibn Ishaq

Hunayn ibn Ishaq

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) 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 266,338 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Hunayn ibn Ishaq is the 431st most popular philosopher (up from 437th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 94th 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.