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Ishaq ibn Hunayn

830 - 910

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Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn (Arabic: إسحاق بن حنين) (c. 830 Baghdad, – c. 910-1) was an influential Arab physician and translator, known for writing the first biography of physicians in the Arabic language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ishaq ibn Hunayn has received more than 58,011 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ishaq ibn Hunayn is the 3,586th most popular writer, the 286th most popular biography from Iraq and the 25th most popular Iraqi Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Risālah qabriyah
Arab Medicine
1927
Le livre des questions sur l'oeil de Honain ibn Ishaq
Arab Medicine, Ophthalmology
1938
Fī ḥifẓ al-asnān wa-al-luththah wa-istiṣlāḥihā
Dentistry, Early works to 1800
1996
Kitāb Jālīnūs ilá Ghalawqun fī al-taʼattī li-shifāʼ al-amrāḍ
Arab Medicine
1982
Kitāb al-mawlūdīn
Early works to 1800, Fetus, Obstetrics
1978
The Libro de los buenos proverbios
Aphorisms and apothegms
1971

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ishaq ibn Hunayn ranks 3,586 out of 7,302. Before him are Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, Yusuf Idris, Xanthus, Leonhard Frank, Gunter d'Alquen, and Françoise d'Eaubonne. After him are I. A. Richards, Aphthonius of Antioch, Paavo Haavikko, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgi Pulevski, and António Ferreira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 830, Ishaq ibn Hunayn ranks 13. Before him are Kocel, Ermentrude of Orléans, Emperor Kōkō, Guthrum, Rimbert, and Mutimir of Serbia. After him is Erchanger, Duke of Swabia. Among people deceased in 910, Ishaq ibn Hunayn ranks 8. Before him are Junayd of Baghdad, Saint Naum, Alfonso III of Asturias, Yasovarman I, Richilde of Provence, and Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ishaq ibn Hunayn ranks 286 out of 384. Before him are Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man (500), Ahmed Chalabi (1944), Raghad Hussein (1968), Abu Ali al-Anbari (1957), Ali Akbar Salehi (1949), and Ishme-Dagan (-2000). After him are Tahir Yahya (1913), Ibrahim ibn Sinan (908), Yitzhak Kaduri (1898), Ali Larijani (1957), Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (-1500), and Jacob of Serugh (451).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Ishaq ibn Hunayn ranks 25. Before him are Nazik Al-Malaika (1923), Karim Findi (1946), Abdullah Goran (1904), Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz (861), Abu Firas al-Hamdani (932), and Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī (923). After him are Jacob of Serugh (451), Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750), Ahmet Haşim (1887), Abu Isa al-Warraq (null), and Muhsin al-Ramli (1967).

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