Hunayn b. Ishaq - ܚܘܢܝܢ ܒܪ ܐܝܣܚܩ

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Physician, philosopher, theologian, and translator. His full name is Abū Zayd Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq b. Sulaymān b. Ayyūb al-ʿIbādī, and he was known in medieval Europe as Johannitius.1

Names

  • ܚܘܢܝܢ ܒܪ ܐܝܣܚܩ4, 5, 6
  • Hunayn b. Ishaq
  • ܚܘܢܰܝܢ ܒܰܪ ܐܝܣܚܳܩ4
  • ܚܘܼܢܲܝܢ ܒܲܪ ܐܝܼܣܚܵܩ5
  • حنين بن اسحق3
  • Abū Zayd Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq b. Sulaymān b. Ayyūb al-ʿIbādī1
  • Hunain ibn Ishaq7
  • Ḥunain ibn Ishaq
  • Johannitius1
  • Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq1
  • Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq2

Birth

808

Death

873

Notes

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Works Cited

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  • 1 A. M. ButtsḤunayn b. IsḥāqThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritagep: 205-206., p: 205-206.
  • 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 26.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 33.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 45.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 5 ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha, Ktābā d-metqre margānitā d-ʿal šrārā da-kresṭyānutā, 2nd ed. (Mosul: Mṭabbaʿtā ātoraytā d-ʿēdtā ʿattiqtā d-madnḥā, 1924), p: 74.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 6 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., vol: III, p: 164.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 7 Sergey Minov (ed.), A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Hunain ibn Ishaq.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.
  • 8 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), p: 227-230.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 9 J.-B. Chabot, Littérature syriaque, Bibliothèque catholique des sciences religieuses; Littératures chrétiennes de l'Orient (: Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 122.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

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James E. Walters et al., “Hunayn b. Ishaq — ܚܘܢܝܢ ܒܪ ܐܝܣܚܩ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/542.

Bibliography:

James E. Walters et al., “Hunayn b. Ishaq — ܚܘܢܝܢ ܒܪ ܐܝܣܚܩ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/542.

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Entry Title: Hunayn b. Ishaq — ܚܘܢܝܢ ܒܪ ܐܝܣܚܩ

Additional Credit:

  • Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
  • German data entry by Samer Khader
  • Editing, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, Arabic name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson

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