The Reputation of Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq in Contemporaneous and Later Sources
The intellectual abilities and activities of the great Abbasid-era scholar and translator, Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (d. 260/873 or 264/877), have been lauded and eulogised from the Middle Ages through to modern times. However, it is clear that most of the information which has shaped Ḥunayn’s reputation deri...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Journal of Abbasid Studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-55 |
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Book of the Ten Treatises of the Eye
Firdaws al-ḥikma
Ibn Rabban al-Ṭabarī
intellectual history
Islamic medicine
medical history and historiography
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