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05-12-2006
Translators of All Times
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On The Web (Wikipedia): Some of the great Iranian translators who knew Syriac, Greek and Pahlavi languages and translated many scientific books into Arabic were Al Bakhtyasu, Al-Nowbakht, Al-Masouyeh, Abdollah Ibn Moqaffa, Omar Ibn Farakhan Tabari, Ali Ibn Ziad Tammimi, Ibn Sahl, Yusof Al Naqel, Isa Ibn Chaharbakht, Yatr Ibn Rostam Al Kouhi and the latest was Abu Reyhan Birooni, the mathematician and famous translator of Indian books. As the result of these men and their Arab colleagues, the knowledge and science of ancient India, Greece and Alexandria were translated into Arabic, creating the greatest scientific treasury of the Middle Ages.
For more information, please visit:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_Iran
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