translator

Timothy I

c. 740–823

Patriarch of the Church of the East from 780, resident in Baghdad and at ease at the caliph's court. His surviving letters show him hunting Syriac Aristotle manuscripts in monastery libraries to fulfill al-Mahdi's commission for an Arabic Topics.

Crossings

c. 782 Topics , Syriac Arabic · translator · Baghdad attested

Sources

Gutas, Dimitri (1998). Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasid Society.