Yesterday i mentioned that the pdfs of the encyclopedia of islam. Allah has already given you victory in many regions and even on the day of hunayn, when your great number pleased you, but it did not avail you at all. One, if the not the, central figure during this translation phase was hunayn bin ishaq. Abu zayd hunayn bin ishaq al ibadi ranks as the finest medical and scientific mind of the early abassid era. During the apex of the islamic abbasid era, he worked with a group of translators, among whom were abu uthman aldimashqi, ibn musa alnawbakhti, and thabit ibn qurra, to translate books of philosophy and classical greek and persian texts into arabic and syriac. Born in 809 to an apothecary in al hirah, hunayn went to baghdad to study medicine as a. Professor guillaumes translation of the sira of ibn ishaq is now reissued. Hunayn ibn ishaq alibadi was an influential nestorian christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. These words from hunayn ibn ishaq alibadi on his extensive and. Hunayn ibn ishaq alibadi also hunain or hunein 809873 was an influential nestorian. Speaking about the battle of hunain, the glorious quran says. Hunayn ibn ishaq estil le traducteur des oneirocritica d. The complete history of the life of prophet muhammad.
One of the most substantial personages who contributed to the translation movement was. Many crucial episodes in mohammeds life are not mentioned in the quran, or are merely vaguely alluded to. Battle of hunain or ghawa hunain is one of the few battles mentioned by name in quran. Hunayn ibnishaq was without a doubt the greatest and most productive of all translators. Hunayn ibn ishaq 396 i sought for it earnestly and travelled in search of it in the lands of mesopotamia, syria, palestine and egypt until i reached alexandria, but i was not able to find anything, except about half of it at damascus1. Media in category hunayn ibn ishaq the following 5 files are in this category, out of 5 total. The translator used ibn hishams abridgement and also included many additions and vari. Abu zayd hunayn bin ishaq al ibadi ranks as the finest medical and scientific mind of the early.