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1
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What were the views of translation in golden age?

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  • Translation showed a civic status
  • Worthy cause
  • Highly practical
  • Helped for religion
2
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What were the places of learning in golden era?

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  • Madrasa
  • Observatories
  • Mosque
  • Libraries
  • hospitals
3
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When was hunyan ibn ishaq born?

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809

4
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Where was hunyan ibn ishaq born?

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Iraq

5
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What languages did hunyan ibn ishaq know?

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Syriac, Arabic & greek

6
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True or false- Hunyan was only a translator

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False- he was a medical physician too

7
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What did hunyan ibn ishaq do as a translator?

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  • Gather rare manuscript
  • Translated galen + Aristotle + Hippocrates work
  • Cross checked them
8
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True or false- cross checking is a form of scientific methodology

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True

9
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What did hunyan ibn ishaw do as a medical practitioner?

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  • Personal physician of calif al mutiwakil

- Great scholar + writer

10
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True or false- Hunyan wasn’t ethical

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false

11
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What did Ibn Rushd do?

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Translate Aristotle work

12
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Did translation only require direct translation?

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No they read and analyzed

13
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True or false- Al Razi was blind

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True

14
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What was Al Razis job?

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Alchemist, physician, musician and philosopher

15
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What did Al Razi do as a physician?

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  • Open a hospital by using evidence based principles (rotten meat)
  • Distinguish small pox and measles
16
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True or false- Al razi was ethical

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true

17
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Who started house of wisdom, maintained it and improved it respectively ?

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Al mansun, Al rashid and almahmum

18
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True or false- the house of wisdom was a private library initially

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true

19
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Who was in charge during translation movement of house of wisdom?

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Al mahmum

20
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How did Islamic scholars contribute to astronomy & astrology?

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  • Astronomy: heavens

- Astrology: study of heavenly bodies