Preferred Citation
John W. Watt, Why Did Ḥunayn, the Master Translator into Arabic, Make Translations into Syriac? On the Purpose of the Syriac Translations of Ḥunayn and His Circle, in The Place to Go: Contexts of Learning in Baghdād, 750-1000 C.E., ed. Jens J. Scheiner and Damien Janos, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
26 (Princeton, New Jersey: Darwin Press, 2014), 363–88.
Subjects
- Arab Christians
- Aristotle
- Greek philosophy
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq
- IX CE
- Nestorians
- Syriac language
- VII-XVIII CE
- medicine
- sociolinguistics
- translation
- translations from Greek
- translations into Arabic
- translations into Syriac
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Article
Title: Why Did Ḥunayn, the Master Translator into Arabic, Make Translations into Syriac? On the Purpose of the Syriac Translations of Ḥunayn and his Circle
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Publication
Title: The Place to Go: Contexts of Learning in Baghdād, 750-1000 C.E.
Editor: Jens J. Scheiner
Editor: Damien Janos
Place of Publication: Princeton, New Jersey
Publisher: Darwin Press
Date of Publication: 2014
Pages: 363-388
Series
Title: Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 26