Misplaced Pages

Yusuf al-Khuri

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Yusuf Al-Khuri) Ancient Christian priest, physician, mathematician

Yusuf al-Khuri (Arabic: يوسف الخوري), also known as Yusuf al-Khuri al-Qass (d. 912), was a Christian priest, physician, mathematician, and translator of the Abbasid era.

He was one of the five most prominent translators and scholars hired by the Banu Musa brothers along with Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Thabit Ibn Qurra, Qusta Ibn Luqa and Al Himsi. The Banu Musa brothers were mathematicians and patrons of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad who financed missions to find ancient manuscripts in foreign lands and have them translated.

After the death of the Banu Musa, he formed part of the school of translators founded and led by Thabit Ibn Qurra which produced Arabic versions of some of the mathematical classics: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonios, Theodosios, Ptolemy.

Translated works

Among his translated works are Archimedes’ lost work on triangles and The Quadrature of the Parabola (Quadratura parabolae) with the title Kitab al-Muthallathat from Syriac into Arabic, which was afterwards revised by Thabit Ibn Qurra. He also translated Galen's “De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus”, which was afterwards revised by Hunayn ibn Ishaq.

See also

References

  1. Johnson, M.C. "Manuscripts of the Bagdad astronomers, 760–1000 AD (p. 219)". The Observatory, Vol. 59, pp. 215–226 (1936).
  2. "History of Islamic Science (p.18)".
  3. O'Leary, Delacy (22 December 2015). How Greek Science Passed On To The Arabs. ISBN 9781317847489.
Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world
Mathematicians
9th century
10th century
11th century
12th century
13th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
Mathematical
works
Concepts
Centers
Influences
Influenced
Related
Islamic medicine
Physicians
7th century
8th century
9th century
10th century
11th century
12th century
13th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
Concepts
Works
Centers
Influences
Influenced
Categories: