Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn ( ar, إسحاق بن حنين) (c. 830
Baghdad
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, – c. 910-1) was an influential
Arab
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physician
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and
translator
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, known for writing the first biography of physicians in the Arabic language. He is also known for his translations of
Euclid
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's ''Elements'' and
Ptolemy
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's ''Almagest''. He is the son of the famous translator
Hunayn Ibn Ishaq
Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (also Hunain or Hunein) ( ar, أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; (809–873) was an influential Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the apex of the Islamic ...
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Hunayn ibn Ishaq
Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (also Hunain or Hunein) ( ar, أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; (809–873) was an influential Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the apex of the Islamic ...
, his father.
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830s births
910 deaths
9th-century Arabs
10th-century Arabs
Greek–Arabic translators
Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
Mathematicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
9th-century physicians
Converts to Islam
9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate