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Ishaq ibn Hunayn

Ishaq ibn Hunayn (إسحاق بن حنين) was a Nestorian Christian physician and translator in Abbasid Baghdad, son of Hunayn ibn Ishaq, whose Arabic Euclid and Ptolemy became standard texts.

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Azra'i

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Azra'i (إسحاق بن إبراهيم الأذرعي) was a hadith transmitter and shaykh of Damascus who heard from al-Nasa'i and died in the 340s AH.

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Munjaniqi

Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Munjaniqi, also known as Abu Ya'qub, was a Baghdad-born hadith transmitter who settled in Egypt, where he died in Jumada al-Akhira 304 AH.

Ishaq ibn Imran

Ishaq ibn Imran (إسحاق بن عمران) was a Baghdadi-born Muslim physician who served the Aghlabid emirs at Kairouan and is credited with founding medicine and philosophy in the Maghreb.

Ishaq ibn Kundaj

Ishaq ibn Kundaj (إسحاق بن كنداج) was a leading Turkic commander and governor of Mosul in the ninth-century Abbasid caliphate, honored as Zu'l-sayfayn and dying in 891 or 892.

Ishaqzaade (इश्क़ज़ादे)

Ishaqzaade (इशक़ज़ादे), also Ishqzaade, is a 2012 Hindi romantic drama directed by Habib Faisal for Yash Raj Films, starring debutant Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra as lovers from feuding Hindu and Muslim political families; released 11 May 2012, a box office hit.

Ishar-Damu

Ishar-Damu, also written Išar-Damu, was the last king of Ebla, a Syrian city-state of the mid-third millennium BC, reigning about 35 years before its violent destruction.

IShares

IShares, formerly World Equity Benchmark Shares, is BlackRock's exchange-traded fund brand and the world's largest ETF platform, with more than 1,700 funds and $6.35 trillion in assets.

Ishbara Qaghan

Ishbara Qaghan (Chinese: Shābōlüè Kèhán; personal name Ashina Shetu; died 587) was the sixth khagan of the First Turkic Khaganate, ruling from 581 to 587.

Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair

Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, née Marjoribanks (1857–1939), was a British reformer who served as vicereine of Canada and Ireland and led the International Council of Women.

Ishbi-Erra

Ishbi-Erra (Išbi-Erra) was a king of Isin in southern Mesopotamia who founded the Dynasty of Isin as the Third Dynasty of Ur collapsed, reigning roughly 2017–1985 BC.

Ishbi-Erra's secession of Isin

Ishbi-Erra's secession of Isin was the breakaway around 2017 BC of Ishbi-Erra, a commandant of the last Ur III king Ibbi-Suen, who founded an independent dynasty at Isin.

Ishchali tablets

The Ishchali tablets are cuneiform administrative and legal records excavated at Tell Ishchali, ancient Nerebtum in the Diyala region, during the Oriental Institute's 1934–1936 dig.

Ishgum-Addu

Ishgum-Addu (Išgum-Addu) was the sixth shakkanakku, or military governor, of Mari on the middle Euphrates, ruling 8 years between his brother Ishtup-Ilum and Apil-kin; he is known almost entirely from the dynastic lists.

Ishhan Dhawan

Ishhan Dhawan (Ishaan Dhawan, born 1995, Chandigarh) is an Indian television actor and former software engineer. Known for Bebaakee, Zindagi Mere Ghar Aana, Dhruv Tara, Doree, and the 2026 Star Plus lead role Jeet in Yeh Fitoor Tera.

Ishi

Ishi (c. 1860–1916), the last known member of the Yahi Yana people of Northern California, emerged near Oroville in 1911 and lived at UC's Museum of Anthropology as the last speaker of Yahi; his brain was repatriated from the Smithsonian in 2000.

Ishi-Addu

Ishi-Addu, also known as Išḫi-Addu, was a king of Qatna in Bronze Age Syria around 1750–1730 BC, known from his royal seal and the Mari archives.

Ishida Baigan

Ishida Baigan (石田梅岩, 1685–1744) was a former Kyoto merchant's apprentice who founded the Sekimon Shingaku school of moral teaching, opening free public lectures in Kyoto in 1729.

Ishida Co., Ltd.

Ishida Co., Ltd. (株式会社イシダ) is a Japanese manufacturer of weighing, packaging, and quality-control equipment for the food industry, headquartered in Kyoto. It invented the multihead weigher in 1972.

Ishida Mitsunari (石田三成)

Ishida Mitsunari (石田三成, 1560–1600), Japanese administrator and one of Hideyoshi's Five Commissioners, led the Western Army at Sekigahara in 1600, was defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu and executed in Kyoto.

Ishihara test

The Ishihara test, also called the Ishihara color test, is a color vision screening test using dotted plates, created by Japanese ophthalmologist Shinobu Ishihara in 1917.

Ishikari LNG Terminal

Ishikari LNG Terminal (石狩LNG基地) is a liquefied natural gas import terminal at Ishikari Bay New Port in Hokkaido, Japan, opened in 2012 and operated by Hokkaido Gas.

Ishikawa

Ishikawa, or Ishikawa cells, is a human endometrial adenocarcinoma cell line established by Masato Nishida in 1980 and widely used as a model of type I endometrial cancer.

Ishikawa diagram

The Ishikawa diagram, also called the fishbone diagram, is a cause-and-effect tool developed by Japanese quality specialist Kaoru Ishikawa to organize the possible root causes of a quality problem.

Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門)

Ishikawa Goemon (石川五右衛門), a real Azuchi-Momoyama thief boiled alive in Kyoto in 1594 on Hideyoshi's order, later became Japan's Robin Hood through kabuki, jōruri, and modern fiction; the famous poison-thread Nobunaga assassination tale is modern fiction.

Ishikawa Jōzan

Ishikawa Jōzan (石川丈山, 1583–1672) was a Japanese warrior from Mikawa Province who served Tokugawa Ieyasu, fought at Sekigahara, then became the leading kanshi poet of the early Edo period.

Ishikawa Jun

Ishikawa Jun (石川淳, 1899–1987) was a Japanese novelist and critic, writing under the pen name Isai, who debuted in 1935, won the Akutagawa Prize for Fugen, and resisted wartime censorship.

Ishikawa Kazumasa

Ishikawa Kazumasa (石川数正) was a senior retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu who served him from his hostage years, then defected to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1585, becoming daimyo of Matsumoto.

Ishikawa Takuboku

Ishikawa Takuboku (石川啄木), born Ishikawa Ichi, was a Japanese tanka poet and critic of the Meiji era, best known for the anthology Ichiaku no Suna.

Ishikawa Tatsuzō

Ishikawa Tatsuzō (石川達三, 1905–1985) was a Japanese novelist who won the first Akutagawa Prize in 1935 with Sōbō and became a central figure of postwar social school fiction.