Index of Persons

Facets

Occupationgrammarian (47) translator (47) jurist (19) mathematician (19) polymath (9) physician (8) lexicographer (5) astronomer (4) scholar (3) poet (3) historian (3) philosopher (3) teacher (2) author (2) astrologer (2) syncellus (1) man of letters (1) Qurʾanic commentator (1) metropolitan (1) patron (1) traditionist (1) commentator (1) judge (1) scientist (1) secretary (1) geometer (1) medical author (1) philologist (1) Qurʾanic scholar (1)

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.

Results (137)

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
al-Yasaʿ, Elisha — Names: al-Yasaʿ, Elishaal-Yasaʿ, Elisha, patron of translatorsURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2314
al-Zajjāj, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Sarī — Names: al-Zajjāj, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Sarīal-Zajjāj, Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Sarī, grammarian (d. 310/922)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2354
al-Zamakhsharī, Abū l-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar — Names: al-Zamakhsharī, Abū l-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmaral-Zamakhsharī, Abū l-Qāsim Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar, grammarian (467–538/1075– 1144)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2356
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 ibn Muʿṭī — Names: Zayn al-Dīn ibn MuʿṭīZayn al-Dīn ibn Muʿṭī, grammarian (d. 628/ 1231)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2369
John the Grammarian/Yaḥyā al-Naḥwī — Names: John the Grammarian/Yaḥyā al-NaḥwīJohn the Grammarian Yaḥyā al Naḥwī conflation of John Philoponus ca 490 575 and one or more unidentified late antique medical writers alleged contemporary...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/2428
Yaʿqūb of Edessa — Names: Yaʿqūb of EdessaAyyūb al-Ruhāwī (Ayyūb of Edessa)Yaʿqūb of EdessaURI: https://usaybia.net/person/2437
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 Manṣūr al-Jabbān — Names: Abū Manṣūr al-JabbānAbū Manṣūr al-Jabbān, grammarianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/267
Abū Marwān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Lakhmī al-Bājī — Names: Abū Marwān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Lakhmī al-BājīAbū Marwān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Lakhmī al-Bājī, Sevillian jurist and informant of ⅠＡＵURI: https://usaybia.net/person/274
Abū Muḥammad ibn Rizq al-Ḥāfiẓ — Names: Abū Muḥammad ibn Rizq al-ḤāfiẓAbū Muḥammad ibn Rizq al-Ḥāfiẓ, Andalusī juristURI: https://usaybia.net/person/287
Abū Naṣr ibn Nārī ibn Ayyūb — Names: Abū Naṣr ibn Nārī ibn AyyūbAbū Naṣr ibn Nārī ibn Ayyūb, translatorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/301
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
Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī — Names: Abū l-Ṭayyib al-ṬabarīAbū l-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī, Shāfiʿite jurist (d. 450/1058)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/367
Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām al-Baghdādī — Names: Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām al-BaghdādīAbū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām al-Baghdādī, 8th-c. grammarian and Qurʾanic scholarURI: https://usaybia.net/person/373
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-Anṣārī — Names: Abū Zayd al-AnṣārīAbū Zayd al-Anṣārī, 9th-c. grammarian and lexicographerURI: https://usaybia.net/person/391
al-Naḥwī al-Mawṣilī — Names: al-Naḥwī al-Mawṣilīal-Naḥwī al-Mawṣilī, grammarian (d. 666/1267)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/407
ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Rabaʿī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Naḥwī — Names: ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Rabaʿī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-NaḥwīʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā al-Rabaʿī, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Naḥwī (the Grammarian) (d. 420/1029)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/474
ʿAbd Yashūʿ ibn Bahrīr — Names: ʿAbd Yashūʿ ibn BahrīrʿAbd Yashūʿ ibn Bahrīr, translator associate of Jibrīl ibn BukhtīshūʿURI: https://usaybia.net/person/49
al-ʿAmīdī, Rukn al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī — Names: al-ʿAmīdī, Rukn al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandīal-ʿAmīdī, Rukn al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī, Ḥanafī jurist at Bukhārā (d. 615/1218)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/493
al-Anbārī al-Naḥwī, Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh Abū l-Barakāt — Names: al-Anbārī al-Naḥwī, Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh Abū l-Barakātal-Anbārī al-Naḥwī, Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd Allāh Abū l-Barakāt, grammarian (513/1119–577/1181)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/519
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
ʿArafah — Names: ʿArafahʿArafah, unidentified grammarian of DamascusURI: https://usaybia.net/person/551
Artemon — Names: ArtemonArtemon, 2nd-c. grammarian from CassandreiaURI: https://usaybia.net/person/569
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
Abū l-ʿAbbās ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī — Names: Abū l-ʿAbbās ibn Wāḍiḥ al-YaʿqūbīAbū l-ʿAbbās ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī, 3rd/9th-c. polymathURI: https://usaybia.net/person/61
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-Bīrūnī, Abū l-Rayḥān — Names: al-Bīrūnī, Abū l-RayḥānAbū r-Raiḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-BīrūnīAbū l-Rayḥān al-Bīrūnīal-Bīrūnīal-Bīrūnī, Abū l-Rayḥān, polymath (d. ca. 442/1050)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/645
al-Biṭrīq — Names: al-Biṭrīqal-Biṭrīq, Christian translator under al-ManṣūrURI: https://usaybia.net/person/649
Diocles — Names: DioclesDiocles, 3rd–2nd-c. BC mathematician and geometerURI: https://usaybia.net/person/714
Dioscorides the Younger — Names: Dioscorides the YoungerDioscorides the Younger, 2nd-c. ＡⅮ grammarianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/722
al-Ḥajjāj ibn Maṭar (al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar) — Names: al-Ḥajjāj ibn Maṭar (al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar)al-Ḥajjāj ibn Maṭaral-Ḥajjāj ibn Maṭar (al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar), translator of Euclid (active 169– 218/786–833)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/810
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm — Names: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad IbrāhīmAbū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibrāhīm, Andalusī judge and grammarianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/84
Hermann of Carinthia Names: Hermann of CarinthiaHermann of Carinthia, Istrian scholar and translatorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/871
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
Ḥubaysh ibn Ḥasan al-Dimashqī — Names: Ḥubaysh ibn Ḥasan al-DimashqīḤubaysh al-AʿsamḤubaysh ibn Ḥasan al-Dimashqī, translator nephew of Ḥunayn ibn IsḥāqURI: https://usaybia.net/person/892
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʿIbādī — Names: Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʿIbādīḤunayn ibn IsḥāqḤunayn ibn Isḥāq, Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʿIbādī, Christian physician and translator (192– 260/808–873)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/899
Hypsicles — Names: HypsiclesHypsicles, Greek mathematician and astronomer (d. 120BC)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/908
Ibn Bābashādh, Abū l-Ḥasan Ṭāhir b. Aḥmad al-Miṣrī — Names: Ibn Bābashādh, Abū l-Ḥasan Ṭāhir b. Aḥmad al-MiṣrīIbn Bābashādh, Abū l-Ḥasan Ṭāhir b. Aḥmad al-Miṣrī, grammarianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/940
Ibn Barhān, Abū l-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad — Names: Ibn Barhān, Abū l-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn MuḥammadIbn Barhān, Abū l-Fatḥ Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, grammarian and jurist (d. 520//1126)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/949
Ibn Barrī — Names: Ibn BarrīIbn Barrī, grammarianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/950
Ibn al-Biṭrīq — Names: Ibn al-BiṭrīqIbn al-Biṭrīq, translator of Greek into Arabic under al-MaʾmūnURI: https://usaybia.net/person/956
Ibn al-Dahhān Wajīh al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī Ibn Dahn (`or` Ibn Dhan) the Indian — Names: Ibn al-Dahhān Wajīh al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī Ibn Dahn (`or` Ibn Dhan) the IndianIbn al-Dahhān Wajīh al-Dīn al-Wāsiṭī Ibn Dahn (`or` Ibn Dhan) the Indian, translator of Sanskrit medical texts and head of Baghdad hospitalURI: https://usaybia.net/person/963
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abān (Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī) — Names: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abān (Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī)Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Abān (Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī), grammarian (d. 377/987)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/97
Ibn Durayd — Names: Ibn DuraydIbn Durayd, grammarian (d. 321/933)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/974
Ibn Durustawayh ibn al-Marzubān al-Fasawī — Names: Ibn Durustawayh ibn al-Marzubān al-FasawīIbn Durustawayh ibn al-Marzubān al-Fasawī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, grammarian (d. 347/958)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/975
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
Ḥayyawayh Ibn Ḥazm — Names: Ḥayyawayh Ibn ḤazmḤayyawayh Ibn Ḥazm (d. 456/1064), Andalusī polymathURI: https://usaybia.net/person/998

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.