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وأول من نقلها خالد بن يزيد بن معاوية
An early stage of its transmission is associated with Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah.

Accounts of Greek learning’s transmission into Arabic name several figures and periods. Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah is associated in some historical reports with early patronage; translation activities expanded markedly during the reign of the Abbasid al-Maʾmūn. Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq is also a prominent name in the history of translators.

These historical attributions do not all have equal evidentiary strength. They should be read as part of a broad chronology, not as a claim that the whole corpus entered Arabic through one individual or in one moment.

Translated material had differing uses: medicine could inform practice, logic could inform disputation, and metaphysical propositions might become subjects of critique.

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Greek Philosophy in Arabic: Its Encounter with Kalām

وأول من نقلها خالد بن يزيد بن معاوية
An early stage of its transmission is associated with Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah.

Accounts of Greek learning’s transmission into Arabic name several figures and periods. Khālid ibn Yazīd ibn Muʿāwiyah is associated in some historical reports with early patronage; translation activities expanded markedly during the reign of the Abbasid al-Maʾmūn. Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq is also a prominent name in the history of translators.

These historical attributions do not all have equal evidentiary strength. They should be read as part of a broad chronology, not as a claim that the whole corpus entered Arabic through one individual or in one moment.

Translated material had differing uses: medicine could inform practice, logic could inform disputation, and metaphysical propositions might become subjects of critique.