# Ishaq ibn Hunayn

- id: ishaq-ibn-hunayn
- name in original script: إسحاق بن حنين
- dates: d. c. 910
- roles: translator

Hunayn's son and the philosophical specialist of the family workshop. Where his father concentrated on Galen, Ishaq turned Aristotle, Euclid and Ptolemy into Arabic. He died in 910 or 911.

## Crossings

- c. 870–900: On the Soul into Arabic (translator) [attested]
- c. 870–910: Nicomachean Ethics into Arabic (translator) [probable]
- c. 875–900: Elements into Arabic (translator) [attested]
- c. 879–890: Almagest into Arabic (translator) [attested]

## Sources

- Ibn al-Nadim (987). Kitab al-Fihrist.
- Treiger, Alexander (2017). Reconstructing Ishaq ibn Hunayn's Arabic Translation of Aristotle's De Anima.