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Yahya ibn al-Batriq

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Abu Yahya Ibn al-Batriq (working 796- 806) was an Assyrian scholar who pioneered the translation of ancient Greek texts into Arabic. He translated for Al-Mansur the major medical works of Galen and Hippocrates,[1] and also translated Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Hamid Naseem Rafiabad, ed. World Religions and Islam: A Critical Study, Part 1 :149.
  2. ^ De Lacy O'Leary, How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs 1949, Ch. XII.
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