Baghdad's Greatest Translator Was Blind from Birth
Medieval Islamic World

Baghdad's Greatest Translator Was Blind from Birth

At the House of Wisdom in medieval Baghdad, the most celebrated translator worked entirely from memory, dictating perfect Greek texts he had never seen written down.

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Medieval Islamic World9th CenturyTranslationScholarshipAbbasid CaliphateGreek PhilosophyMedical KnowledgeBaghdadNestorian ChristianityIntellectual HistoryManuscript PreservationHunayn Ibn Ishaq

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