ABSTRACT
A philosopher and a translator who lived in Baghdad during the reign of Caliph al-Raḏi (934–940). He was the most famous logician of his time and the teacher of the renowned philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi. He translated several books of Aristotle, Porphyry of Tyre, and Alexander of Aphrodisias from Syriac and Greek into Arabic. The difference between utterance and meaning is that the utterance originates in nature, while the meaning originates in reason. It should be known that no one language is identical to another in all its aspects, or its properties, nouns, verbs, and particles, modes of composition, word order, metaphors and statements of fact, duplication and simplification, prolixity and concision, verse, prose, rhyme, meter, intonations, and other features too numerous to mention. The debate has been widely studied in the context of the reception of Greek philosophy in Classical Islam.
