Index of Persons

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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  
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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*  
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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.

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.

Results (223)

Theodorus of Athens — Names: Theodorus of AthensTheodorus of Athens, Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2212
Theomnestus of Nicopolis Names: Theomnestus of NicopolisTheomnestus of Nicopolis, Byzantine writer on veterinary medicineURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2217
Theon — Names: TheonTheon, 2nd-c. ＡⅮ mathematician and philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2218
Theophrastus of Eresos Names: Theophrastus of EresosTheophrastus of Eresos, philosopher and successor to Aristotle (d. ca. 287BC)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2219
Timotheus — Names: TimotheusTimotheus, Greek philosopher, teacher of SocratesURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2235
al-Ṭūsī, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar — Names: al-Ṭūsī, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffaral-Ṭūsī, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar, mathematician and astronomer (d. 610/1213)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2248
Vāgbhaṭa Names: VāgbhaṭaVāgbhaṭa, author c. 600ＡⅮ of `Aṣṭāṅgahṛ-daya-Saṃhitā` (`K. Astānkar`/`Astāngar al-jāmiʿ`)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2278
Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī — Names: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdīYaḥyā ibn ʿAdī, Christian philosopher and theologian (d. 363/974)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2299
Yaḥyā ibn al-Biṭrīq — Names: Yaḥyā ibn al-BiṭrīqYaḥyā ibn al-Biṭrīq, translator of philosophical works and medical author (d. ca. 200/815)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2300
Yaḥyā ibn Māsawayh — Names: Yaḥyā ibn MāsawayhYaḥyā ibn Māsawayh, 11th-c. writer on pharmacologyURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2303
Yaʿqūb al-Sīrāfī Ibn Māhān — Names: Yaʿqūb al-Sīrāfī Ibn MāhānIbn MāhānYaʿqūb al-Sīrāfī Ibn Māhān, physician and author of a work on medical mattersURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2311
al-Yasaʿ, Elisha — Names: al-Yasaʿ, Elishaal-Yasaʿ, Elisha, patron of translatorsURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2314
Yūḥannā ibn Ḥaylān — Names: Yūḥannā ibn ḤaylānYūḥannā ibn Ḥaylān, Christian philosopher (d. during caliphate of al-Muqtadir)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2325
Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī — Names: Abū Isḥāq al-ShīrāzīAbū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī, author of `A Guide to Jurisprudence`URI: https://usaybia.net/person/236
Zarūyā ibn Mānaḥūh al-Nāʿimī al-Ḥimṣī — Names: Zarūyā ibn Mānaḥūh al-Nāʿimī al-ḤimṣīZarūyā (Zarūbā?) ibn Mānaḥūh (Mājūh?) al-Nāʿimī al-Ḥimṣī, translatorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2363
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
Abū l-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī (`or` al-Iṣbahānī) — Names: Abū l-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī (`or` al-Iṣbahānī)Abū l-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī (`or` al-Iṣbahānī), author of `K. al-Aghānī`URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2380
John Philoponus — Names: John PhiloponusJohn Philoponus, Neoplatonist Christian philosopher (ca. 490–575)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2385
Abū Jābir al-Maghribī — Names: Abū Jābir al-MaghribīAbū Jābir al-Maghribī, unidentified author quoted by Ibn al-MuṭrānURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2397
Abū l-Qāsim al-Sharīʿī — Names: Abū l-Qāsim al-SharīʿīAbū l-Qāsim al-Sharīʿī, unidentified philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2402
Abū Jurayq (the Monk) — Names: Abū Jurayq (the Monk)Abū Jurayq (the Monk), late-antique medical writerURI: https://usaybia.net/person/250
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
Abū Naṣr ibn Nārī ibn Ayyūb — Names: Abū Naṣr ibn Nārī ibn AyyūbAbū Naṣr ibn Nārī ibn Ayyūb, translatorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/301
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 l-Qāsim ibn Sulaymān al-Ṣayrafī — Names: Abū l-Qāsim ibn Sulaymān al-ṢayrafīAbū l-Qāsim ibn Sulaymān al-Ṣayrafī (d. 542/1147), Egyptian author who worked for the Fatimid chancelleryURI: https://usaybia.net/person/320
Abū Saʿīd ʿUthmān al-Dimashqī — Names: Abū Saʿīd ʿUthmān al-DimashqīAbū Saʿīd ʿUthmān al Dimashqī translator perhaps identical with Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Yaʿqūb al Dimashqī Abū Saʿīd Wahb ibn Ibrāhīm secretary to al...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/341
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 ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Yaʿqūb al-Dimashqī — Names: Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Yaʿqūb al-DimashqīAbū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Yaʿqūb al-Dimashqī, translator and physician of ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā (active 302/924–925)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/379
Abū Yūsuf al-Kātib ‘the Secretary’ — Names: Abū Yūsuf al-Kātib ‘the Secretary’Abū Yūsuf the SecretaryAbū Yūsuf al-Kātib ‘the Secretary’, translatorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/387
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
Aeschines — Names: AeschinesAeschines, Greek statesman and orator (d. 314BC)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/405
Agathias of Anazarbus — Names: Agathias of AnazarbusAgathias of Anazarbus, Greek philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/414
Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ḥarrānī see al-Ḥarrānī, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus Ahrun ibn Aʿyan — Names: Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ḥarrānī see al-Ḥarrānī, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus Ahrun ibn AʿyanAḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ḥarrānī see al-Ḥarrānī, Aḥmad ibn Yūnus Ahrun ibn Aʿyan, 6th-c. author of a medical compendiumURI: https://usaybia.net/person/439
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
ʿAbd Yashūʿ ibn Bahrīr — Names: ʿAbd Yashūʿ ibn BahrīrʿAbd Yashūʿ ibn Bahrīr, translator associate of Jibrīl ibn BukhtīshūʿURI: https://usaybia.net/person/49
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
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
al-ʿAbdī ʿAbdishoʿ bar Bahrīz (ʿAbdīshūʿ ibn Bahrīz) — Names: al-ʿAbdī ʿAbdishoʿ bar Bahrīz (ʿAbdīshūʿ ibn Bahrīz)ʿAbdīshūʿ ibn Bahrīz (ʿAbdishoʿ bar Bahrīz)al-ʿAbdī ʿAbdishoʿ bar Bahrīz (ʿAbdīshūʿ ibn Bahrīz), metropolitan and translatorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/53
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
Autolycus — Names: AutolycusAutolycus, author of `Moving Sphere`URI: https://usaybia.net/person/589
Ayyūb al-Ruhāwī (Job of Edessa) al-Abrash — Names: Ayyūb al-Ruhāwī (Job of Edessa) al-AbrashAyyūb, known as al-AbrashAyyūb al-Ruhāwī (Job of Edessa) al-Abrash, Syriac polymath, Christian physician and translator of Galen (d. ca. 835)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/596
al-Azdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū l-Muṭahhar — Names: al-Azdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū l-Muṭahharal-Azdī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū l-Muṭahhar, 4th–5th/10th–11th-c. authorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/597
Bar Bahlūl — Names: Bar BahlūlBar Bahlūl, author of Syriac lexicon and translatorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/633
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
Basīl al-Muṭrān — Names: Basīl al-MuṭrānBasīl al-Muṭrān, translatorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/638
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
al-Bayhaqī, Ẓahīr al-Dīn Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Funduq — Names: al-Bayhaqī, Ẓahīr al-Dīn Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Funduqal-Bayhaqī, Ẓahīr al-Dīn Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Funduq, Persian author of `Tatimmat Ṣiwān al-Ḥikmah` (d. 565/1169– 1170)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/641
Bhela Names: BhelaBhela, author of a Sanskrit medical compendium (Saṃhitā)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/643
al-Biṭrīq — Names: al-Biṭrīqal-Biṭrīq, Christian translator under al-ManṣūrURI: https://usaybia.net/person/649
Caraka (also Sharak, Sīrk, or Jarak) — Names: Caraka (also Sharak, Sīrk, or Jarak)Caraka (also Sharak, Sīrk, or Jarak)– Indian physician, author of `Carakasaṃhitā`URI: https://usaybia.net/person/670
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
Cleopatra — Names: CleopatraCleopatra, Ptolemaic queen of Egypt (d. 30BC), supposed author on cosmetics and medical/alchemical mattersURI: https://usaybia.net/person/678
Damascius — Names: DamasciusDamascius, 5th–6th-c. ＡⅮ Neoplatonist philosopherURI: https://usaybia.net/person/690
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

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.