Index of Persons

Facets

Occupationphysician (492) poet (173) littérateur (17) author (15) philosopher (14) scholar (9) musician (8) historian (8) translator (8) anthologist (6) geometer (6) teacher (5) astronomer (5) vizier (4) courtier (3) grammarian (3) patriarch (3) astrologer (3) ophthalmologist (2) theologian (2) emir (2) judge (2) hadith scholar (2) philologist (2) student (2) lexicographer (1) mystic (1) prince (1) geographer (1) official (1) pharmacologist (1) chief qadi (1) transmitter (1) caliph (1) polymath (1) prose writer (1) commentator (1) apothecary (1) botanist (1) emperor (1) commander (1) secretary (1) orator (1) mathematician (1) wound specialist (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

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.

Results (677)

al-Kātib al-Iṣfahānī — Names: al-Kātib al-Iṣfahānīal-Kātib al-Iṣfahānī, ʿImād al-Dīn, state secretary of Nūr al-Dīn and Saladin, anthologist (d. 597/1201)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1367
Kaysān ibn ʿUthmān ibn Kaysān — Names: Kaysān ibn ʿUthmān ibn KaysānKaysān ibn ʿUthmān ibn Kaysān, 10th-c. physician from Egypt and brother of the physician SahlānURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1371
Khalaf ibn ʿAbbās al-Zahrāwī — Names: Khalaf ibn ʿAbbās al-ZahrāwīKhalaf ibn ʿAbbās al-Zahrāwī, Andalusian physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1376
Khalaf ibn Khalīfah — Names: Khalaf ibn KhalīfahKhalaf ibn Khalīfah, poet (possibly Khalaf ibn Khalīfah ibn Ṣāʿid, d. 181/797–780)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1377
Khalaf al-Ṭūlūnī — Names: Khalaf al-ṬūlūnīKhalaf al-Ṭūlūnī, Abū ʿAlī, Baghdadi physician (active 302/914)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1378
Abū Bakr al-Khālidī — Names: Abū Bakr al-KhālidīAbū Bakr al-Khālidī, a poet and man of letters, known together with his brother Abū ʿUthmān al-Khālidī as al-Khālidiyyān (d. 380/990)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1384
al-Khansāʾ — Names: al-Khansāʾal-Khansāʾ, poetess (d. after 24/644)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1386
Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī — Names: Abū l-Barakāt al-BaghdādīAwḥad al-Zamān (Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī)Abū l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī, Awḥad al-Zamān Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Malkā, Jewish philosopher and physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/139
Khaṣīb al-Naṣrānī — Names: Khaṣīb al-NaṣrānīKhaṣībKhaṣīb al-Naṣrānī, 2nd/8th-c. Christian physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1390
Khayyām — Names: KhayyāmKhayyām, ʿUmar (Omar), Persian poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1396
Abū l-Barakāt ibn al-Quḍāʿī — Names: Abū l-Barakāt ibn al-QuḍāʿīAbū l-Barakāt ibn al-Quḍāʿī, physician serving Saladin (d 598/1201)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/140
al-Khūnajī — Names: al-KhūnajīAfḍal al-Dīn al-Khūnajīal-Khūnajī, Afḍal al-Dīn Abū l-Faḍāʾil Muḥammad ibn Nāmawar, physician, teacher of ⅠＡＵ (d. 646/1248)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1401
al-Khuraymī — Names: al-Khuraymīal-Khuraymī, Abu Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Ḥassān, poet (d. 214/829)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1402
Abū l-Barakāt ibn Shaʿyā — Names: Abū l-Barakāt ibn ShaʿyāAbū l-Barakāt ibn Shaʿyā, al-Muwaffaq, Jewish physician of EgyptURI: https://usaybia.net/person/141
al-Kumayt ibn Maʿrūf al-Asadī — Names: al-Kumayt ibn Maʿrūf al-Asadīal-Kumayt ibn Maʿrūf al-Asadī (d. ca. 100/ 718), poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1414
Kushājim, Abū l-Fatḥ Maḥmūd ibn al-Ḥusayn — Names: Kushājim, Abū l-Fatḥ Maḥmūd ibn al-ḤusaynKushājim, Abū l-Fatḥ Maḥmūd ibn al-Ḥusayn, poet and prose writer (d. ca. 360/970)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1417
Kuthayyir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān — Names: Kuthayyir ibn ʿAbd al-RaḥmānKuthayyir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, known as Kuthayyir ʿAzzah, 1st/7th-c. poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1419
Abū l-Bayān ibn al-Mudawwar — Names: Abū l-Bayān ibn al-MudawwarAbū l-Bayān ibn al-Mudawwar, Karaite Jewish physician of Egypt with the honorific name of al-Sadīd (the Well-Guided)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/142
Labīd ibn Rabīʿah — Names: Labīd ibn RabīʿahLabīd ibn Rabīʿah, pre-Islamic poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1420
al-Maʿarrī, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān — Names: al-Maʿarrī, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymānal-Maʿarrī, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sulaymān, Syrian poet and prose writer (d. 449/1057)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1428
Macarius — Names: MacariusMacarius, physician of antiquityURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1429
Abū Bishr — Names: Abū BishrAbū Bishr, ‘the Physician to Rulers’Abū Bishr, `ṭabīb al-ʿaẓīmiyyah`, physician in Egypt under al-ḤākimURI: https://usaybia.net/person/143
Magnus of Alexandria — Names: Magnus of AlexandriaMagnus of Alexandria, late-antique physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1434
Magnus of Emesa — Names: Magnus of EmesaMagnus of Emesa, physician of antiquityURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1435
Majnūn Laylā, Qays ibn al-Mulawwaḥ — Names: Majnūn Laylā, Qays ibn al-MulawwaḥMajnūn Laylā, Qays ibn al-Mulawwaḥ, 1st/7th-c. poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1445

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.