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Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi, an influential Arab Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist during the Islamic Abbasid era, led a group of translators in rendering philosophy, Greek, and Persian texts into Arabic and Syriac. Referred to as the "Sheikh of the Translators," he was highly proficient in Arabic, Syriac, Greek, and Persian languages. Hunayn's expertise lay in translating Greek medical and scientific writings, establishing a method that later translators widely adopted. His contributions were crucial to the Translation movement centered in Baghdad.
