patron · commissioner

Yahya ibn Khalid al-Barmaki

d. 805

Barmakid vizier to Harun al-Rashid and one of the earliest great patrons of translation, commissioning the first Arabic Euclid and promoting the first Arabic Almagest before his family's spectacular fall.

Crossings

c. 786–805 Elements , Greek Arabic · commissioner · Baghdad attested

Sources

Gutas, Dimitri (1998). Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early Abbasid Society.
Hockey, Thomas et al. (eds.) (2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (entries: Fazari, Khwarizmi, Majriti, Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar).