Index of Persons

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M?r  
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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.

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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.

Results (168)

Yūḥannā ibn Ḥaylān — Names: Yūḥannā ibn ḤaylānYūḥannā ibn Ḥaylān, Christian philosopher (d. during caliphate of al-Muqtadir)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2325
Zayn al-Dīn — Names: Zayn al-DīnZayn al-Dīn, the blind, philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2366
Zeno the Elder — Names: Zeno the ElderZeno the Elder, i.e. Zeno of Elea, Presocratic Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2372
Zeno the Younger — Names: Zeno the YoungerZeno the Younger, i.e. Zeno of Citium, Hellenistic philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2373
Ziyād ibn Abīhi (Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān) — Names: Ziyād ibn Abīhi (Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān)Ziyād ibn Abīhi (also known as Ziyād ibn Abī Sufyān), governor of Iraq and the eastern provinces under MuʿāwiyahURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2376
John Philoponus — Names: John PhiloponusJohn Philoponus, Neoplatonist Christian philosopher (ca. 490–575)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2385
Abū l-Qāsim al-Sharīʿī — Names: Abū l-Qāsim al-SharīʿīAbū l-Qāsim al-Sharīʿī, unidentified philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2402
Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam the Astrologer — Names: Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam the AstrologerAbū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam the Astrologer, mathematician (active 3rd–4th/9th–10th c.)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/251
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir — Names: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ṬāhirʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṭāhir, governor of KhorasanURI: https://usaybia.net/person/26
Abū l-Majd ibn Abī l-Ḥakam — Names: Abū l-Majd ibn Abī l-ḤakamAbū l-Majd ibn Abī l-Ḥakam, physician, astronomer, geometricianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/263
Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī — Names: Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-BalkhīAbū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-BalkhīAbū MaʿšarAbū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī, astronomer and astrologer in BaghdadURI: https://usaybia.net/person/275
Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid — Names: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-WāḥidAbū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, governor of IfrīqiyahURI: https://usaybia.net/person/278
Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān, Ibn al-Ṣayrafī — Names: Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān, Ibn al-ṢayrafīAbū l-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān, Ibn al-Ṣayrafī, Fatimid official (d. 532/1147)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/310
ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī — Names: ʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf al-BaghdādīMuwaffaq al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-BaghdādīIbn al-LabbādʿAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf al-Baghdādī, philosopher and physician, also known as Ibn al-Labbād (557–629/1162–1231)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/32
Abū Sahl al-Kūhī — Names: Abū Sahl al-KūhīAbū Sahl al-Kūhī, 4th/10th-c. astronomerURI: https://usaybia.net/person/333
Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Muʿawwaj — Names: Abū Saʿīd ibn al-MuʿawwajAbū Saʿīd ibn al-Muʿawwaj, 5th/11th-c. officialURI: https://usaybia.net/person/339
Abū Salīm — Names: Abū SalīmAbū Salīm, courtier of Hārūn al-RashīdURI: https://usaybia.net/person/344
Abū Sulaym Faraj — Names: Abū Sulaym FarajAbū Sulaym Faraj, Turkish `mawlā` of Hārūn al-Rashīd and governorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/355
Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir Abū Sulaymān Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Bahrām al-Sijistānī, known as al-Manṭiqī — Names: Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir Abū Sulaymān Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Bahrām al-Sijistānī, known as al-ManṭiqīAbū Sulaymān al-SijistānīMuḥammad ibn Ṭāhir Abū Sulaymān Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Bahrām al-Sijistānī, known as al-Manṭiqī, philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/357
Abū Thughrah, Abū l-Qāsim ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Iskāfī — Names: Abū Thughrah, Abū l-Qāsim ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-IskāfīAbū Thughrah, Abū l-Qāsim ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Iskāfī, 4th/10th-c. officialURI: https://usaybia.net/person/368
Abū Yaʿqūb al-Khuraymī, Isḥāq ibn Ḥassān — Names: Abū Yaʿqūb al-Khuraymī, Isḥāq ibn ḤassānAbū Yaʿqūb al-Khuraymī, Isḥāq ibn Ḥassān, poet courtier of Hārūn al-Rashīd and al-Amīn (d. 214/829)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/386
Abū Zayd al-Balkhī, Aḥmad b. Sahl — Names: Abū Zayd al-Balkhī, Aḥmad b. SahlAbū Zayd al-Balkhī, Aḥmad b. Sahl (d. 322/ 934), philosopher and contemporary of al-RāzīURI: https://usaybia.net/person/392
Acratus ‘the musician’ — Names: Acratus ‘the musician’Acratus ‘the musician’, Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/396
Agathias of Anazarbus — Names: Agathias of AnazarbusAgathias of Anazarbus, Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/414
Aḥmad ibn Ilyās al-Qāʾid — Names: Aḥmad ibn Ilyās al-QāʾidAḥmad ibn Ilyās al-Qāʾid, governor of CordovaURI: https://usaybia.net/person/428
Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn — Names: Aḥmad ibn ṬūlūnAḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, Turkish governor of Egypt, founder of the Ṭūlūnid dynasty (220/835– 270/884)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/437
Alexander of Aphrodisias — Names: Alexander of AphrodisiasAlexander of Aphrodisias, 3rd-c. Aristotelian philosopher (confused with Alexander of Damascus)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/453
Alexander of Damascus — Names: Alexander of DamascusAlexander of Damascus, Aristotelian philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/455
ʿAlī, known as al-Fayyūm — Names: ʿAlī, known as al-FayyūmʿAlī, known as al-Fayyūm, Christian patron of translators including Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, governor of the Egyptian district of FayyūmURI: https://usaybia.net/person/461
ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī — Names: ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlīʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī, courtier of al-MuʿtaṣimURI: https://usaybia.net/person/47
ʿAlī ibn Wāhsūdhān — Names: ʿAlī ibn WāhsūdhānʿAlī ibn Wāhsūdhān the Daylamite (d. after 304/917), governor of RayyURI: https://usaybia.net/person/482
al-Āmidī, Sayf al-Dīn Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Sālim al-Taghlibī al-Āmidī — Names: al-Āmidī, Sayf al-Dīn Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Sālim al-Taghlibī al-ĀmidīSayf al-Dīn al-Āmidīal Āmidī Sayf al Dīn Abū l Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Sālim al Taghlibī al Āmidī theologian and philosopher d...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/494
al-ʿĀmirī, Abū l-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf — Names: al-ʿĀmirī, Abū l-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Yūsufal-ʿĀmirī, Abū l-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf (d. 381/992), philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/502
ʿAmr ibn Nuhaywī — Names: ʿAmr ibn NuhaywīʿAmr ibn Nuhaywī, official under al-MaʾmūnURI: https://usaybia.net/person/511
Anaxagoras — Names: AnaxagorasAnaxagoras, Pre-socratic philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/516
Anaximander — Names: AnaximanderAnaximander, early Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/517
Anaximenes — Names: AnaximenesAnaximenes, early Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/518
ʿAnbasah ibn Isḥāq al-Ḍabbī — Names: ʿAnbasah ibn Isḥāq al-ḌabbīʿAnbasah ibn Isḥāq al-Ḍabbī, governor of Daybul (Sind) under al-WāthiqURI: https://usaybia.net/person/520
Androcles — Names: AndroclesAndrocles, governor of Samos and fosterfather of PythagorasURI: https://usaybia.net/person/525
Apollonius of Perga — Names: Apollonius of PergaApollonius (of Perga, Greek astronomer and geometer, d. ca. 190BC)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/549
Apollonius of Tyana — Names: Apollonius of TyanaApollonius of Tyana, Neopythagorean holyman and philosopher of 1st-c. ＡⅮ, authority on occult in later traditionsURI: https://usaybia.net/person/550
Archytas — Names: ArchytasArchytas, philosopher of TarentumURI: https://usaybia.net/person/558
Aristotle — Names: AristotleAristotle, Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/565
ʿAwn al-ʿIbādī al-Jawharī — Names: ʿAwn al-ʿIbādī al-JawharīʿAwn al-ʿIbādī al-Jawharī, governor of al-Ḥīrah under Hārūn al-RashīdURI: https://usaybia.net/person/592
Bar Hebraeus (Abū l-Faraj ibn al-ʿIbrī) — Names: Bar Hebraeus (Abū l-Faraj ibn al-ʿIbrī)Bar Hebraeus (Abū l-Faraj ibn al-ʿIbrī), Syriac Orthodox historian, philosopher and translator (d. 685/1286)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/634
al-Battānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān — Names: al-Battānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn SinānAbū ʿAbdullāh Muhammad ibn Dschābir ibn Sinān al-Harrānī as-Sābī al-Battānīal-Battānīal-Battānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān (d. 317/929), astrologer and mathematicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/639
Bishr ibn al-Samaydaʿ al-Azdī — Names: Bishr ibn al-Samaydaʿ al-AzdīBishr ibn al-Samaydaʿ al-Azdī, governor of Balad under al-MuʿtaṣimURI: https://usaybia.net/person/648
Chrysippus — Names: ChrysippusChrysippus, 3rd-c. BC Stoic philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/674
Cleinias of Tarentum Names: Cleinias of TarentumCleinias of Tarentum, Pythagorean philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/676
Damascius — Names: DamasciusDamascius, 5th–6th-c. ＡⅮ Neoplatonist philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/690
Dāwūd ibn Sarābiyūn (`or` Sarāfīyūn) — Names: Dāwūd ibn Sarābiyūn (`or` Sarāfīyūn)Dāwūd ibn Sarābiyūn (`or` Sarāfīyūn), acc. to ⅠＡＵ brother of the physician Yūḥannā ibn Sarābiyūn, but probably courtier of al-Hādī (late 2nd/8th-c.)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/702
Democritus of Abdera — Names: Democritus of AbderaDemocritus of Abdera, late-5th-c. founder of Atomist philosophyURI: https://usaybia.net/person/707
Diocles — Names: DioclesDiocles, 3rd–2nd-c. BC mathematician and geometerURI: https://usaybia.net/person/714
Diogenes — Names: DiogenesDiogenes, Greek Cynic philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/715
Empedocles of Agrigentum — Names: Empedocles of AgrigentumEmpedocles of Agrigentum, Presocratic philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/736
Epicurus — Names: EpicurusEpicurus, Athenian philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/738
Eudemus — Names: EudemusEudemus, 2nd-c. Peripatetic philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/744
Euphanes — Names: EuphanesEuphanes, Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/750
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Ibn Khaṭīb al-Rayy — Names: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Ibn Khaṭīb al-RayyIbn Khaṭīb al-Rayy (Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī)Fakhr al Dīn al Rāzī Ibn Khaṭīb al Rayy The Son of the Preacher of Rayy philosopher and theologian author of the monumental Qurʾanic...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/762
al-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Ūzlūgh ibn Ṭarkhān — Names: al-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Ūzlūgh ibn ṬarkhānAbū Naṣr al-Fārābīal-Fārābī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Ūzlūgh ibn Ṭarkhān, philosopher and scholar of music (ca. 256–338/870–950)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/765
Favorinus of Arelate Names: Favorinus of ArelateFavorinus of Arelate, 2nd-c. ＡⅮ Roman philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/775
Ghassān ibn ʿAbbād — Names: Ghassān ibn ʿAbbādGhassān ibn ʿAbbād, governor of Khorasan under al-MaʾmūnURI: https://usaybia.net/person/796
al-Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī — Names: al-Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ṭūsīal-Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (d. 505/1111), philosopher and theologianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/797
Glaucon — Names: GlauconGlaucon, philosopher friend and dedicatee of GalenURI: https://usaybia.net/person/800
al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf al-Thaqafī — Names: al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf al-Thaqafīal-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf al-Thaqafī, Umayyad governor (ca. 41–95/661–714) loyal to caliphs ʿAbd al-Malik and al-WalīdURI: https://usaybia.net/person/811
Ḥamdūn, Ibrāhīm — Names: Ḥamdūn, IbrāhīmḤamdūn, Ibrāhīm, called Ḥamdūn (Ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Dāwūd ibn Ḥamdūn), courtier of caliphs al-Maʿmūn, al-MuʿtaṣimURI: https://usaybia.net/person/817
al-Ḥasan ibn Sahl — Names: al-Ḥasan ibn Sahlal-Ḥasan ibn Sahl, governor of Iraq under al-MaʾmūnURI: https://usaybia.net/person/856
Heraclitus — Names: HeraclitusHeraclitus, Presocratic Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/870
Hilāl ibn Abī Hilāl al-Ḥimṣī — Names: Hilāl ibn Abī Hilāl al-ḤimṣīHilāl ibn Abī Hilāl al-Ḥimṣī, mathematician (d. 218/833), translator of Apollonius’ `K. al-Makhrūṭāt`URI: https://usaybia.net/person/881
Hypsicles — Names: HypsiclesHypsicles, Greek mathematician and astronomer (d. 120BC)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/908
Iamblichus — Names: IamblichusIamblichus, Syrian Neoplatonist philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/909
Ibn Bājjah, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣāʾigh — Names: Ibn Bājjah, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-ṢāʾighIbn BājjahIbn Bājjah, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣāʾigh, Andalusian philosopher and physician (d. 533/1139)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/943
Ibn al-Dahhān, Fakhr al-Dīn (also Abū Shujāʿ) — Names: Ibn al-Dahhān, Fakhr al-Dīn (also Abū Shujāʿ)Ibn al-Dahhān, Fakhr al-Dīn (also Abū Shujāʿ), Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Baghdādī, astronomer (d. 590/1194)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/962
Ibn al-Dāyah — Names: Ibn al-DāyahIbn al Dāyah Abū l Ḥasan Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm al Ḥāsib courtier and assistant to Ibrāhīm ibn al Mahdī author of `Akhbār al atibbāʾ`...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/967
Abū ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin — Names: Abū ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-MuʾminAbū ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin, governor (`ṣāḥib`) of SevilleURI: https://usaybia.net/person/99
Ibn al-Haytham — Names: Ibn al-HaythamAbū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-HaythamIbn al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham, mathematician, writer on optics (d. 430/1039)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/997

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.