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"Jacob+Bishop"~2  
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Results (2415)

Ibn Munqidh — Names: Ibn MunqidhIbn Munqidh, ʿAḍud al-Dīn (`or` ʿAḍud al-Dawlah) Abū l-Fawāris Murhaf ibn Usāmah (d. 613/1216), poet, son of Usāmah ibn MunqidhURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1062
Ibn Munqidh — Names: Ibn MunqidhIbn Munqidh, al-Mubārak ibn Kāmil ibn ʿAlī, high official under SaladinURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1063
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ — Names: Ibn al-MuqaffaʿIbn al-Muqaffaʿ, ʿAbd Allāh, translator of `Kalīlah wa-Dimnah` (d. ca. 137/755)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1064
Ibn Muqashshir Abū l-Fatḥ Manṣūr ibn Sahlān — Names: Ibn Muqashshir Abū l-Fatḥ Manṣūr ibn SahlānAbū l-Fatḥ Manṣūr ibn Sahlān ibn MuqashshirIbn Muqashshir Abū l-Fatḥ Manṣūr ibn Sahlān, Christian physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1065
Ibn Muqlah — Names: Ibn MuqlahIbn Muqlah, Abbasid vizier, famous calligrapher (d. 328/940)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1066
Ibn al-Murakhkhim — Names: Ibn al-MurakhkhimIbn al-Murakhkhim, Abū l-Wafāʾ Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, physician and chief qadi under al-Muqtafī (d. 555/1160)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1067
Ibn Mus'hir — Names: Ibn Mus'hirIbn Mus'hir, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, poet (d. 543/1148 `or` 546/1151)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1068
Ibn al-Muʿtazz — Names: Ibn al-MuʿtazzIbn al-Muʿtazz, ʿAbd Allāh, Abbasid prince and poet (d. 296/908)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1069
Abū ʿĀmir ibn Yannaq al-Shāṭibī — Names: Abū ʿĀmir ibn Yannaq al-ShāṭibīAbū ʿĀmir ibn Yannaq al-Shāṭibī, Andalusī poet and historianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/107
Ibn al-Muṭrān — Names: Ibn al-MuṭrānMuwaffaq al-Dīn ibn al-MuṭrānIbn al Muṭrān Muwaffaq al Dīn Abū Naṣr Asʿad ibn Ilyās personal physician of Saladin teacher of al Dakhwār author of `Bustān al aṭibbāʾ...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1070
Ibn al-Muwaffaqī — Names: Ibn al-MuwaffaqīIbn al-Muwaffaqī, unidentified physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1071
Ibn al-Nabbāsh — Names: Ibn al-NabbāshIbn al-Nabbāsh, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥāmid al-Bijāʾī, Andalusian physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1072
Ibn al-Nadīm — Names: Ibn al-NadīmIbn al-Nadīm, Abū l-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb Ishāq, known as al-Warrāq al-Baghdādī, author of the `Fihrist`URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1073
Ibn al-Nafīs — Names: Ibn al-NafīsIbn al-Nafīs, ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Abī l-Ḥazm al-Qurashī (or al-Qarashī) (d. 687/1288), physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1074
Ibn al-Naḥḥās — Names: Ibn al-NaḥḥāsIbn al-Naḥḥās, Muwaffaq al-Dīn Hibat Allāh Abū l-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Kātib, poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1075
Ibn Nāʿimah (ʿAbd al-Masīḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥimṣī al-Nāʿimī) — Names: Ibn Nāʿimah (ʿAbd al-Masīḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥimṣī al-Nāʿimī)Ibn NāʿimahIbn Nāʿimah (ʿAbd al-Masīḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥimṣī al-Nāʿimī), translator of Greek philosophyURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1076
Ibn Nubātah al-Khaṭīb — Names: Ibn Nubātah al-KhaṭībIbn Nubātah al-Khaṭīb, orator and preacher, author of `al-Khuṭab al-nubātiyyah` (d. 374/984–985)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1077
Ibn al-Qabīḍī — Names: Ibn al-QabīḍīIbn al-Qabīḍī, Muḥammad ibn Abī l-Wafāʾ ibn Aḥmad al-ʿUmarī (active 610/1213), poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1078
Ibn Qāḍī l-Yaman — Names: Ibn Qāḍī l-YamanIbn Qāḍī l-Yaman, Sharaf al-Dīn Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Kātib, poet (b. 589/1193)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1079
Abū ʿAmr al-Aʿjamī — Names: Abū ʿAmr al-AʿjamīAbū ʿAmr al-Aʿjamī, courtier of Hārūn al-RashīdURI: https://usaybia.net/person/108
Ibn Qamāniṣ al-Hindī — Names: Ibn Qamāniṣ al-HindīIbn Qamāniṣ al-Hindī, unidentified Indian kingURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1080
Ibn al-Qāsim — Names: Ibn al-QāsimIbn al-Qāsim, son of Abū Dulaf and tax collector under al-MuʿtaṣimURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1081
Ibn Qawsayn (Qūsīn) — Names: Ibn Qawsayn (Qūsīn)Ibn Qawsayn (Qūsīn), physician in MosulURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1082
Ibn al-Qaysarānī — Names: Ibn al-QaysarānīIbn al-Qaysarānī, Muḥammad ibn Naṣr ibn Dāghir, poet (d. 548/1154)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1083
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah — Names: Ibn Qayyim al-JawziyyahIbn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, writer on law and theology (d. 751/1350)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1084
Ibn al-Qifṭī — Names: Ibn al-QifṭīIbn al Qifṭī Jamāl al Dīn Abū l Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAbd al Wāḥid al Shaybānī vizier and biographer author...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1085
Ibn al-Quff — Names: Ibn al-QuffIbn al-Quff, Muwaffaq al-Dīn Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq, Christian physician (d. 685/1286)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1086
Ibn Qusaym — Names: Ibn QusaymIbn Qusaym, unidentifiedURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1087
Ibn Qutaybah al-Dīnawarī — Names: Ibn Qutaybah al-DīnawarīIbn Qutaybah al-Dīnawarī, Islamic polymath (213–276/828–89)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1088
Ibn Rāʾiq — Names: Ibn RāʾiqIbn Rāʾiq, military commander (d. 330/942)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1089
Abū ʿAmr al-Zajjājī — Names: Abū ʿAmr al-ZajjājīAbū ʿAmr al-Zajjājī, transmitterURI: https://usaybia.net/person/109
Ibn Raqīqah — Names: Ibn RaqīqahSadīd al-Dīn ibn RaqīqahIbn Raqīqah Abū l Thanāʾ Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al Ṭabīb ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Shujāʿ al Shaybānī al Ḥanawī Sadīd al Dīn physician...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1090
Ibn Rashīq — Names: Ibn RashīqIbn Rashīq, author of the `K. al-ʿumdah`URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1091
Ibn al-Rāwandī — Names: Ibn al-RāwandīIbn al Rāwandī Abū l Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā b Isḥāq b start 3rd 9th c follower then critic of Muʿtazilism and the prophecy...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1092
Ibn Riḍwān, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī — Names: Ibn Riḍwān, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlīʿAlī ibn RiḍwānIbn Riḍwān, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī, Egyptian physician at court of Fāṭimid caliph al-Mustanṣir (d. 453/1061 `or` 460/1068)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1093
Ibn Rūmān al-Naṣrānī — Names: Ibn Rūmān al-NaṣrānīKhālid ibn Yazīd ibn Rūmān al-NaṣrānīIbn Rūmān al-Naṣrānī, Khālid ibn YazīdURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1094
Ibn al-Rūmiyyah — Names: Ibn al-RūmiyyahAbū l-ʿAbbās ibn al-RūmiyyahIbn al-Rūmiyyah, Abū l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Mufarrij al-Nabātī, expert in botanyURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1095
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) — Names: Ibn Rushd (Averroes)Abū l-Walīd ibn RushdIbn Rushd (Averroes), Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, philosopher (d. 595/ 1198)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1096
Ibn Saʿādah — Names: Ibn SaʿādahIbn Saʿādah, Abū Zakariyyā Yahūdhā, 11th-c. Jewish Egyptian physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1097
Ibn Ṣadāqah — Names: Ibn ṢadāqahIbn Ṣadāqah, Ibrāhīm ibn Abī l-Faḍl, physician of AleppoURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1099
ʿAbd Allāh — Names: ʿAbd AllāhʿAbd Allāh, shaykh of Mālik clan, of Banū Hāshim (ca. 169–170/785–786)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/11
Abū l-ʿArab Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad — Names: Abū l-ʿArab Yūsuf ibn MuḥammadAbū l-ʿArab Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad, Andalusian physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/110
Ibn Ṣadaqah — Names: Ibn ṢadaqahIbn Ṣadaqah, (probably Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣadaqah), vizier and friend of Amīn al-Dawlah Ibn al-Tilmīdh (d. 556/1161)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1100
Ibn Sadīr — Names: Ibn SadīrIbn Sadīr, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, physician (d. 6060/1210)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1101
Ibn al-Ṣaffār — Names: Ibn al-ṢaffārIbn al-Ṣaffār, Abū l-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd AllāhURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1102
Ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Mutaṭabbib — Names: Ibn al-Ṣaffār al-MutaṭabbibIbn al-Ṣaffār al-Mutaṭabbib, Abū Jaʿfar ibn ʿAbd Allāh, student of Ibn KhaldūnURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1103
Ibn Ṣafiyyah — Names: Ibn ṢafiyyahIbn Ṣafiyyah, Abū Ghālib al-Ṭabīb al-Naṣrānī, physician during the reign of al-Mustanjid (566–575/1170–1180)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1104
Ibn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāh — Names: Ibn Ṣāḥib al-ṢalāhIbn Ṣāḥib al-Ṣalāh, Abū al-Qāsim Hishām ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, unidentified Sevillian physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1105
Ibn Sahlān — Names: Ibn SahlānIbn Sahlān probably Zayn al Dīn ʿUmar ibn Sahlān al Sāwī `or` al Sāwajī author of `al Tabṣirah` = `K al Baṣāʾir al Naṣīriyyah...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1106
Ibn al-Sāʿī — Names: Ibn al-SāʿīIbn al-Sāʿī, Tāj al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Anjab, 7th/13thc. historianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1107
Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh al-ʿAntarī — Names: Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh al-ʿAntarīal-ʿAntarī (Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh)Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh al-ʿAntarī, Abū l-Muʾayyad Muḥammad ibn al-Mujallī (d. ca. 560/ 1165)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1108
Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ — Names: Ibn al-ṢalāḥIbn al-Ṣalāḥ, Najm al-Dīn Abū l-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sarī, philosopher, astronomer, physician (d. 540/1145 `or` 548/1153)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1109
Abū l-Aṣbagh ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad al-Rāzī — Names: Abū l-Aṣbagh ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad al-RāzīAbū l-Aṣbagh ʿĪsā ibn Aḥmad al-Rāzī (d. 379/989), Andalusī historian and secretary of al-Ḥakam ⅠⅠURI: https://usaybia.net/person/111
Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī — Names: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-ShahrazūrīIbn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī (d. 643/1225), Hadith scholarURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1110
Ibn Samajūn — Names: Ibn SamajūnIbn Samajūn, Abū Bakr Ḥāmid, author of a `K. al-`adwiyah `al-`mufradahURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1111
Ibn al-Samḥ al-Baghdādī — Names: Ibn al-Samḥ al-BaghdādīIbn al-SamḥIbn al-Samḥ al-Baghdādī, Abū l-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad, Christian commentator on Aristotle (d. 418/1027)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1112
Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk — Names: Ibn Sanāʾ al-MulkIbn Sanāʾ al Mulk al Qāḍī l Saʿīd Abū l Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn Abī l Faḍl Jaʿfar ibn al Muʿtamid Ayyubid qadi and...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1113
Ibn al-Sarrāj — Names: Ibn al-SarrājIbn al-Sarrāj, author of `K. al-Uṣūl`URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1114
Ibn Sayyid al-Muhandis — Names: Ibn Sayyid al-MuhandisIbn Sayyid al-Muhandis, Abu Zayd ʿAbd ar-Rahman, Andalusī geometerURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1115
Ibn Shahdā al-Karkhī — Names: Ibn Shahdā al-KarkhīIbn Shahdā al-Karkhī, Syriac-to-Arabic translatorURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1116
Ibn al-Shajarī — Names: Ibn al-ShajarīIbn al-Shajarī, scholar, teacher of al-Khaṭīb al-TibrīzīURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1117
Ibn Shākir al-Kutubī — Names: Ibn Shākir al-KutubīIbn Shākir al-Kutubī, Muḥammad (d. 764/ 1363), Syrian historian and anthologistURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1118
Ibn al-Shanāʿah — Names: Ibn al-ShanāʿahIbn al-Shanāʿah, unidentified Andalusī mathematicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1119
Abū l-Aṣbagh ʿĪsā Ibn Ḥayyawayh — Names: Abū l-Aṣbagh ʿĪsā Ibn ḤayyawayhAbū l-Aṣbagh ʿĪsā Ibn Ḥayyawayh, contemporary of Ibn JuljulURI: https://usaybia.net/person/112
Ibn al-Sharīf al-Jalīl — Names: Ibn al-Sharīf al-JalīlIbn al-Sharīf al-Jalīl, al-Sayyid al-Naqīb al-Kāmil, author of panegyric on Amīn al-Dawlah Ibn al-TilmīdhURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1120
Ibn al-Shaṭajayrī — Names: Ibn al-ShaṭajayrīIbn al-Shaṭajayrī, Ḥabīb ibn Aḥmad, Andalusī poetURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1121
Ibn Shaʿyā see Abū l-Barakāt ibn Shaʿyā Ibn (al-)Shibl al-Baghdādī — Names: Ibn Shaʿyā see Abū l-Barakāt ibn Shaʿyā Ibn (al-)Shibl al-BaghdādīIbn Shibl al-BaghdādīIbn Shaʿyā see Abū l Barakāt ibn Shaʿyā Ibn al Shibl al Baghdādī Abū ʿAlī al Ḥusayn `or` Muḥammad ibn al Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1122
Ibn al-Shiḥnah — Names: Ibn al-ShiḥnahIbn al-Shiḥnah, Muhadhdhab al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Mawṣilī, poet (d. 608/1211 `or` 606/1209)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1123
Ibn al-Sikkīt — Names: Ibn al-SikkītIbn al-Sikkīt, philologist and lexicographer (d. ca. 243/857)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1124
Ibn Sīnā — Names: Ibn Sīnāal-Shaykh al-Raʾīs Ibn SīnāIbn Sīnā, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Shaykh al-Raʾīs (d. 428/1037)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1125
Ibn Siqlāb — Names: Ibn SiqlābMuwaffaq al-Dīn Yaʿqūb Ibn SiqlābMuwaffaq al-Dīn Yaʿqūb ibn ṢiqlābIbn Siqlāb, Muwaffaq al-Dīn Yaʿqūb, Christian physician of Ayyubid emir Fāris al-Dīn Maymūn al-Qaṣrī (d. 624/1227)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1126

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.