Hunayn ibn Ishaq wrote at a period when the questions philosophy asked were themselves being renegotiated.
The record lists Hunayn ibn Ishaq as Arab Christian scholar, physician and scientist (809–873).
Hunayn ibn Ishaq was born at Al-Hirah in 808. His recorded nationality is Iraq.
Thought in this period moved between the Islamic world, the Jewish communities and the Latin West, and the same texts were argued over in three traditions.
The recorded fields of work are translating activity, medicine and science.
Philosophical influence is measured in the questions a thinker made unavoidable.
That the work was done from Iraq matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq died in 873, aged 65. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Fields: translating activity, medicine and science
