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Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥāq
Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (808–873; also Hunain or Hunein; ; ; known in Latin as Johannitius) was an influential Arabs, Arab Nestorianism, Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the apex of the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid era, he worked with a group of translators, among whom were Abu Uthman al-Dimashqi, Abū 'Uthmān al-Dimashqi, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Musa al-Nawbakhti, 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 language, Greek and became known as the "Sheikh of the Translators". He mastered four languages: Arabic, Syriac language, Syriac, Greek and Persian language, Persian. Later translators widely followed Hunayn's method. He was originally from al-Hirah, previously the capital of the Lakhmid kingdom, but work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isagoge
The ''Isagoge'' (, ''Eisagōgḗ''; ) or "Introduction" to Aristotle's "Categories", written by Porphyry in Greek and translated into Latin by Boethius, was the standard textbook on logic for at least a millennium after his death. It was composed by Porphyry in Sicily during the years 268–270, and sent to Chrysaorium, according to all the ancient commentators Ammonius, Elias, and David. The work includes the highly influential hierarchical classification of genera and species from substance in general down to individuals, known as the Tree of Porphyry, and an introduction which mentions the problem of universals. Boethius' translation of the work, in Latin, became a standard medieval textbook in European scholastic universities, setting the stage for medieval philosophical-theological developments of logic and the problem of universals. Many writers, such as Boethius himself, Averroes, Peter Abelard, Duns Scotus, wrote commentaries on the book. Other writers such as Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
