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Ibn Ishaqin full Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar ibn Khiyar(born c. 704, Medina, Arabia—died 767, Baghdad) Arab biographer of Muhammad. His father and two uncles collected and transmitted information about Muhammad in Medina, and Ibn Ishaq soon became an authority on the Prophet's military campaigns (maghazi). He studied in Alexandria and subsequently moved to Iraq, where he met many people who provided him with information for his biography, which became the most popular biography of Muhammad in the Muslim world but which survives only in the recension by Ibn Hisham. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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One of the greatest of the translators, the renowned "Nestorian" Christian scholar Hunayn ibn Ishaq, included Luqman material in his Nawadir al-falasifah (The Rarities of the Philosophers); furthermore, it was probably through Christians that Arabic versions of Aesop's fables were made and attributed to the new "ecumenical" Luqman. The structure of the book envisages a uniform treatment of the material in all chapters: a summary of Aristotle's text, followed by an account of various Greek commentaries, followed by Arabic versions of Meteorology by Ibn al-Bitriq and Hunayn ibn Ishaq and an Arabic version of the paraphrase by Pseudo-Olympiodorus. |
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