Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq's translation circle

حلقة حنين بن إسحاق للترجمة

c. 835 CE · c. 220 AH† – c. 835 CE · c. 220 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and the translators of his circle carried through the greatest rendering of Greek books into Arabic under al-Maʾmūn and after him, making the Bayt al-Ḥikma the head of the translation movement ¹.

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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Levant & Iraq
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate

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Occurred at: Bayt al-Hikma — the House of Wisdom
Had participant: Hunayn ibn Ishaq

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al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim

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The Cyprus library comes to Baghdad

When al-Maʾmūn made a truce with the lord of Cyprus he asked for the island's collected Greek library — kept in a house no one had opened — and it was sent to him, Sahl ibn Hārūn made its keeper.