Hunayn b. Ishāks Thoughts and Works

Culture and Civilization Dept., EncyclopaediaIslamica Foundation, Tehran Hunayn b. ’Ishāk is one of the most hardworking scholars of Islamic period. He has many works and translations on medicine, philosophy, logic, ethics, natural sciences and Christian theology. This article is to introduce his most important works on medicine, philosophy and logic and also to present a brief report of his views about Christian theology. Table 2 is also a useful summary of Hunayn’s treatise on Galen’s works which contains a rather complete list of his circle’s medical translations.This article is in fact the second part of a survey which its first part entitled “Hunayn b. ’Ishāk’sTranslationSchool” is published in the last issue of this journal.