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Stephen of Antioch (Stephen of Pisa)

إسطفان الأنطاكيّ (البيزيّ)

Notable figure c. 1127 · Source: Charles H. Talbot, Stephen of Antioch, Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Encyclopedia.com · Second source: Arabic and Latin Corpus, ed. D. N. Hasse (Würzburg): translator list

From Italy; worked in Türkiye

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Latin Royal Book of Haly Abbas from the Arabic (1127)

Biography

A Pisan, according to an old gloss, he went to Syria and learned Arabic there. In 1127 he put into Latin the twenty books of the Kitab al-maliki of ʿAli ibn al-ʿAbbas al-Majusi (Haly Abbas), judging Constantine the African's version incomplete and distorted, and he signed and dated most sections to mark his own as distinct. He also translated Ibn al-Haytham's On the Configuration of the World. The sources name no helper.