Ḥubaysh b. al-Ḥasan al-Dimashqī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Strohmaier, Gotthard
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Brill
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Ḥubaysh b. al-Ḥasan al-Aʿsam al-Dimashqī (fl. second half of the third/ninth century) was a nephew, pupil, and collaborator of the renowned translator of Greek medical and philosophical works into Arabic Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (d. 260/873) and, like him, a member of the Apostolic Church of the East (also called the East Syriac or Nestorian church). Ḥunayn's famous Risāla (epistle) on the translations of Galen credits Ḥubaysh with preparing thirty-six Arabic versions of Galen's works, at the request of Muslim clients in the