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	'''~~Hunain~~ ibn Ishaq''' (]—]) was ] physician in the ]. He translated many treatises of ] and the Galenic school into Syriac, and thirty-nine into Arabic; through his renderings some important works of Galen escaped destruction. Hunain also translated ]'s Categories, Physics, and ]; ]’s ], ], and Laws; ]’ ], ]’ ], ]'s ], and the ] from the ] ]. Later medieval sources knew him by the Latinized name, '''Joannitius'''.		'''Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-'Ibadi''' (]—]) was ] physician in the ]. He translated many treatises of ] and the Galenic school into Syriac, and thirty-nine into Arabic; through his renderings some important works of Galen escaped destruction. Hunain also translated ]'s Categories, Physics, and ]; ]’s ], ], and Laws; ]’ ], ]’ ], ]'s ], and the ] from the ] ]. Later medieval sources knew him by the Latinized name, '''Joannitius'''.

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Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-'Ibadi (809—873) was Nestorian physician in the House of Wisdom. He translated many treatises of Galen and the Galenic school into Syriac, and thirty-nine into Arabic; through his renderings some important works of Galen escaped destruction. Hunain also translated Aristotle's Categories, Physics, and Magna Moralia; Plato’s Republic, Timaeus, and Laws; Hippocrates’ Aphorisms, Dioscorides’ Materia Medica, Ptolemy's quadri-partition, and the Old Testament from the Septuagint Greek. Later medieval sources knew him by the Latinized name, Joannitius.

His son Ishaq ibn Hunayn helped him with his translations.

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