Index of Persons

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Occupationpoet (173) vizier (69) historian (42) physician (22) littérateur (17) lexicographer (13) musician (8) author (7) grammarian (7) anthologist (6) geographer (5) philosopher (4) man of letters (3) courtier (3) secretary (3) philologist (3) scholar (2) emir (2) biographer (2) hadith scholar (2) translator (2) traditionalist (1) jurist (1) mystic (1) prince (1) official (1) Qurʾanic commentator (1) ophthalmologist (1) traditionist (1) theologian (1) patriarch (1) calligrapher (1) polymath (1) prose writer (1) commander (1) orator (1) astronomer (1) Qurʾanic scholar (1) bishop (1)

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Thus

"ʿAbdishoʿ I"  
returns only one result with that exact phrase, while several results are found for the words "ʿAbdishoʿ" and "I".

Proximity Characters

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Thus

"Jacob+Bishop"~2  
finds three results in which the words "Jacob" and "Bishop" occur within two words of each other: "Jacob , bishop of Nisibin", "Jacob, bishop of Phesilta", and "Jacob , bishop of ‛Ānah" while a simple search for "Jacob Bishop" returns many more results.

Results (315)

ʿAbd Allāh — Names: ʿAbd AllāhʿAbd Allāh (? = ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Yaḥyā ibn Khāqān), vizier of al-MutawakkilURI: https://usaybia.net/person/10
Ibn Hindū — Names: Ibn HindūAbū l-Faraj ibn HindūIbn Hindū, Abū l-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, poet and physician author of `K. Miftāḥ al-ṭibb` (d. 420/1029)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1000
Ibn Hubayrah — Names: Ibn HubayrahIbn Hubayrah, Abū l-Muẓaffar ʿAwn al-Dīn Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad, Ḥanbalī scholar, vizier to caliphs al-Muqtafī and al-Mustanjid (d. 560/1165)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1002
Ibn Hubayrah — Names: Ibn HubayrahIbn Hubayrah, ʿIzz al-Dīn, vizier, patronized by Saladin (d. 560/1165)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1003
Ibn Isḥāq — Names: Ibn IsḥāqIbn Isḥāq, vizier of the Umayyad emirs in CordovaURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1006
Ibn al-Jabbāb — Names: Ibn al-JabbābIbn al-Jabbāb, al-Qāḍī al-Jalīs ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Ḥusayn, poet (d. 561/1166)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1008
Ibn Jahwar — Names: Ibn JahwarIbn Jahwar, Abū Marwān ʿAbd al-Malik, vizier under ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ⅠⅠⅠURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1009
Ibn Jakkīnā (Jakīnā, Ḥakīnā), al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad — Names: Ibn Jakkīnā (Jakīnā, Ḥakīnā), al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. MuḥammadIbn Jakkīnā (Jakīnā, Ḥakīnā), al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, 6th/12th-c. poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1010
Ibn al-Kalbī — Names: Ibn al-KalbīIbn al-Kalbī, Hishām, 2nd/8th-c. historianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1019
Ibn al-Khaḍir al-Ḥalabī — Names: Ibn al-Khaḍir al-ḤalabīIbn al-Khaḍir al-Ḥalabī, Muhadhdhab al-Dīn Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, known as al-Suṭayl, poet (d. 655/1257)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1025
Ibn Khaldūn — Names: Ibn KhaldūnIbn Khaldūn, historian (d. 808/1406)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1026
Ibn Kharūf — Names: Ibn KharūfIbn Kharūf, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Kharūf, poet, grammarian (d. ca. 609/1212)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1030
Ibn Killis — Names: Ibn KillisIbn Killis, Abū l-Faraj Yaʿqūb, vizier of Fatimid caliph al-ʿAzīz (318–380/930–91)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1035
Ibn Kunāsah — Names: Ibn KunāsahIbn Kunāsah, Iraqi poet and scholar (123–207 `or` 208/ 741– 823 `or` 824)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1036
Ibn Mākūlā — Names: Ibn MākūlāIbn Mākūlā, al-amīr Abū Naṣr ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh, Hadith scholar and poet (d. 485/1092)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1038
Ibn Manẓūr — Names: Ibn ManẓūrIbn Manẓūr, Muḥammad ibn Mukarram ibn ʿAlī, 7th/13th-c. lexicographerURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1042
Ibn Maṭrūḥ — Names: Ibn MaṭrūḥIbn Maṭrūḥ Abū l Ḥasan Yaḥyā ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al Ḥusayn Jamāl al Dīn poet and high official under Ayyubids vizier of...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1048
Ibn Miknasah al-Iskandarī — Names: Ibn Miknasah al-IskandarīIbn Miknasah al-Iskandarī, poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1049
Ibn al-Milḥī — Names: Ibn al-MilḥīIbn al-Milḥī, Abū l-Faḍl, poet (6th/12th c.)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1050
Ibn Muʾahhal (?Mūhal) — Names: Ibn Muʾahhal (?Mūhal)Ibn Muʾahhal (?Mūhal), poet (?= ‘Ibn Mūhad al-Shāṭibī’)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1051
Ibn al-Muʿallim al-Hurthī — Names: Ibn al-Muʿallim al-HurthīIbn al-Muʿallim al-Hurthī, Najm al-Dīn Abū l-Ghanāʾim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, poet from Wāsiṭ (501–1108/592–1196)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1052
Ibn al-Mudabbir — Names: Ibn al-MudabbirIbn al-Mudabbir, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, courtier and man of letters (d. 279/892)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1054
Ibn al-Munajjim — Names: Ibn al-MunajjimIbn al-Munajjim, Abū Aḥmad Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī, Abbasid littérateur (d. 300/912)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1059
Ibn al-Munajjim al-Miṣrī — Names: Ibn al-Munajjim al-MiṣrīIbn al-Munajjim al-Miṣrī, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mufarrij, poet (d. 616/1219–1220)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1061

Search Tips

For best results, users are recommended to use the advanced search functions. Search results can also be improved by the use of the the following Boolean search characters:

Wildcard Characters:

Given the prevalence of variant spellings in names, using Wildcard Characters may help.

"?" can be inserted as a variant for any single character.

Thus a search for:

G?wargis  
returns results which contain either "Gewargis" or "Giwargis".

Similarly a search for:

M?r  
returns results which contain either "Mar" or "Mor".

"*" can be inserted as a variant for multiple characters or a truncated word.

Thus a search for:

Dayr*  
returns results for "Dayr" and "Dayro" and more.

Similarly a search for

Ab*  
returns results for "ʿAbdishoʿ" and "ʿAbda" and more.

Note: Because the sources we quote use a variety of transliteration formats, Syriaca.org ignores diacritics and punctuation in searching; for example, use of "ʿ" is not required to find results with this diacritical mark.

Fuzzy Search Character

Appending the character "~" after a word returns results for words that are close but not exact matches.

Thus a search for

Aba~  
returns results which contain "Aba" but also "Abi", "Saba", "Aha", and other words that are "fuzzy" matches for "Aba".

Exact Phrase Searches

To find an exact phrase, it should be enclosed in double quotes.

Thus

"ʿAbdishoʿ I"  
returns only one result with that exact phrase, while several results are found for the words "ʿAbdishoʿ" and "I".

Proximity Characters

To find two or more words which occur within a specified range of each other, one can append the character "~" followed by a number to an "Exact Phrase" search. This allows one to search for two or more words that occur within a specified distance of each other as defined by number of words.

Thus

"Jacob+Bishop"~2  
finds three results in which the words "Jacob" and "Bishop" occur within two words of each other: "Jacob , bishop of Nisibin", "Jacob, bishop of Phesilta", and "Jacob , bishop of ‛Ānah" while a simple search for "Jacob Bishop" returns many more results.