Yusuf Al-Khuri, also known as Yusuf Al-Khuri al-Qass (Joseph the Priest) (d. 912), was an
ancient Christian priest, physician, mathematician, and translator.
He was one of the five
most prominent translators and scholars hired by the Banu Musa brothers along
with Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Thabit Ibn Qurra, Qusta Ibn Luqa and Al Himsi. The Banu
Musa brothers were mathematicians and patrons of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad
who financed missions to find ancient manuscripts in foreign lands and have
them translated.
After the death of the Banu Musa, he formed part of the school of
translators founded and led by Thabit Ibn Qurra which produced Arabic versions
of some of the mathematical classics: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonios,
Theodosios, Ptolemy.
Translated
Works
Among his translated
works are Archimedes’ lost work on triangles and The Quadrature of the Parabola
(Quadratura parabolae) with the title Kitab al-Muthallathat from Syriac into
Arabic, which was afterwards revised by Thabit Ibn Qurra. He also translated
Galen's “De simplicium medicamentorum temperamentis ac facultatibus”, which was
afterwards revised by Hunayn ibn Ishaq.
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