PHILOSOPHER

Hunayn ibn Ishaq

809 - 873

Hunayn ibn Ishaq

Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (808–873; also Hunain or Hunein; Arabic: أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ʾAbū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn ʾIsḥāq al-ʿIbādī; 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 his era's most productive translator of Greek medical and scientific treatises. He studied Greek and became known as the "Sheikh of the Translators". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hunayn ibn Ishaq is the 341st most popular philosopher (up from 428th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 105th 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, Hunayn ibn Ishaq ranks 341 out of 1,267. Before him are Jacobus Arminius, Nicolai Hartmann, Alexandre Kojève, Judith Butler, John Searle, and Johann Georg Hamann. After him are Nachmanides, David Strauss, Louis Couturat, Rudolf Otto, Anne Sullivan, and Justus Lipsius.

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Jacobus Arminius
1560 - 1609
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 335
Nicolai Hartmann
1882 - 1950
HPI: 69.77
Rank: 336
Alexandre Kojève
1902 - 1968
HPI: 69.73
Rank: 337
Judith Butler
1956 - Present
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 338
John Searle
1932 - Present
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 339
Johann Georg Hamann
1730 - 1788
HPI: 69.67
Rank: 340
Hunayn ibn Ishaq
809 - 873
HPI: 69.59
Rank: 341
Nachmanides
1194 - 1270
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 342
David Strauss
1808 - 1874
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 343
Louis Couturat
1868 - 1914
HPI: 69.51
Rank: 344
Rudolf Otto
1869 - 1937
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 345
Anne Sullivan
1866 - 1936
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 346
Justus Lipsius
1547 - 1606
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 347

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 3. Before him are Ivar the Boneless, and Banū Mūsā. After him are Vímara Peres, and Emperor Yizong of Tang.