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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

OVERWIEN, Oliver (1971 – )

1971 –

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2015 CE

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The paradigmatic translator and his method: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic. IN: New Horizons in Graeco-Arabica Studies, ed

HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي‎; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873) OVERWIEN, Oliver (1971 – )

This analysis of the work of the leading medieval Arab translator of Greek texts into Arabic emphasizes that Hunayn ibn Ishāq, a Nestorian Christian, typically prepared an intermediary translation into Syriac, from wh…