Confronting the Square:

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" Confronting the Square: "
Brown, Sean Douglas Pion-Berlin, David

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062305
Doc. NO	:	ALei2702
Main Entry	:	Strohmaier, Gotthard
Title & Author	:	Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Strohmaier, Gotthard
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,191 words)
Abstract	:	Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq al-ʿIbādī (d. 298/910) was, like his father Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (d. 260/873–4), a leading translator of ancient Greek texts, well versed in the Arabic, Syriac, and Greek Ianguages. Ḥunayn’s nisba al-ʿIbādī indicates that Isḥāq was of Arab Christian descent. He followed the medical profession of his father, who dedicated to him some of his translations of Galen (d. c.216 C.E.). These translations were from Greek into Syriac, not into Arabic, as Syriac was then still
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2702.pdf