حنين بن إسحاق
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq
Person
A Nestorian Christian physician (809–873) who led the translation of Greek works into Arabic for the Abbasid court.
What it means
Hunayn ibn Ishaq of al-Hira studied medicine in Baghdad and learned Greek. He and his school translated many of the works of Galen and Hippocrates, Plato and Aristotle, and the Greek Old Testament, and he wrote on eye diseases. He is called “the sheikh of the translators”. He was a Christian working for Muslim caliphs.