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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 59,431 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ishaq ibn Hunayn is the 3,587th most popular writer, the 286th most popular biography from Iraq and the 25th most popular Iraqi Writer.

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  • 1.70

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ishaq ibn Hunayn ranks 3,587 out of 7,302Before 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 13Before 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 8Before 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 384Before 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 25Before 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).