Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi was an influential Iraqi Arab Nestorian Christian translator, scholar, physician, and scientist. During the apex of the Islamic Abbasid era, he worked with a group of translators, among whom were Abū 'Uthmān al-Dimashqi, Ibn Mūsā al-Nawbakhti, and Thābit ibn Qurra, to translate books of philosophy and classical Greek and Persian texts into Arabic and Syriac. 808 – 873; died at about 65. Alive at the same time as Alfred the Great, Ādi Shankara, Al-Shafi'i, Rudaki, and Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. Wiki link