Index of Persons

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.

Abū ʿAlī ibn Mawṣilāyā — Names: Abū ʿAlī ibn MawṣilāyāAbū ʿAlī ibn Mawṣilāyā, secretary of Abū l-Qāsim al-MaghribīURI: https://usaybia.net/person/102
Ibn Karnīb (or Kurnayb) — Names: Ibn Karnīb (or Kurnayb)Ibn KarnībIbn Karnīb (or Kurnayb), Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ZaydURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1020
Ibn al-Kattānī (`or` al-Kitānī) — Names: Ibn al-Kattānī (`or` al-Kitānī)Ibn al-Kattānī (`or` al-Kitānī), prefect of Damascus in time of al-YabrūdīURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1021
Ibn al-Kattānī — Names: Ibn al-KattānīAbū ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-KattānīIbn al-Kattānī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, Andalusian physician (d. ca. 420/1029)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1022
Ibn al-Kattānī Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn — Names: Ibn al-Kattānī Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn al-ḤusaynAbū l-Walīd ibn al-KattānīIbn al-Kattānī Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, Andalusian physicianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1023
Anonymi 1024 — Names: Anonymi 1024The unnamed physicians, sons of KazūrāURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1024
Ibn al-Khaḍir al-Ḥalabī — Names: Ibn al-Khaḍir al-ḤalabīIbn al-Khaḍir al-Ḥalabī, Muhadhdhab al-Dīn Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, known as al-Suṭayl, poet (d. 655/1257)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1025
Ibn Khaldūn — Names: Ibn KhaldūnIbn Khaldūn, historian (d. 808/1406)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1026
Ibn Khallikān — Names: Ibn KhallikānIbn Khallikān, biographer (d. 681/1282)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1027
Ibn al-Khammār — Names: Ibn al-KhammārAbū l-Khayr al-Ḥasan ibn Suwār, known as Ibn al-KhammārIbn al-Khammār, Abū l-Khayr al-Ḥasan ibn Suwār ibn Bābā ibn Bihrām (Bihnām), teacher of Ibn al-Ṭayyib and Ibn HindūURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1028
Ibn Khanbash al-Yūnānī — Names: Ibn Khanbash al-YūnānīIbn Khanbash al-Yūnānī, Ibrāhīm (name occurs also as Ibn Ḥanbash, Ibn al-Ḥabashī, Ibn Ḥubaysh), commander of the Fatimid armyURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1029
Abū ʿAlī ibn al-Samḥ — Names: Abū ʿAlī ibn al-SamḥAbū ʿAlī ibn al-Samḥ, Christian AristotelianURI: https://usaybia.net/person/103
Ibn Kharūf — Names: Ibn KharūfIbn Kharūf, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Kharūf, poet, grammarian (d. ca. 609/1212)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1030
Ibn al-Khashshāb — Names: Ibn al-KhashshābIbn al-Khashshāb, Abū Muḥammad (or Abū Aḥmad) ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad Ibn al-Khashshāb al-Baghdādī, grammarian (d. 567/1172)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1031
Ibn al-Khayyāṭ — Names: Ibn al-KhayyāṭIbn al-Khayyāṭ, Abū Bakr Yaḥyā ibn Aḥmad, Andalusian physician (d. 447/1055–1056)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1032
Ibn al-Khaybarī — Names: Ibn al-KhaybarīIbn al-Khaybarī, servant of al-MutawakkilURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1033
Ibn Khudūd — Names: Ibn KhudūdIbn Khudūd, addressee of al-Samawʾal ibn YaḥyāURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1034
Ibn Killis — Names: Ibn KillisIbn Killis, Abū l-Faraj Yaʿqūb, vizier of Fatimid caliph al-ʿAzīz (318–380/930–91)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1035
Ibn Kunāsah — Names: Ibn KunāsahIbn Kunāsah, Iraqi poet and scholar (123–207 `or` 208/ 741– 823 `or` 824)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1036
Ibn al-Lajlāj — Names: Ibn al-LajlājIbn al-Lajlāj, personal physician to al-ManṣūrURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1037
Ibn Mākūlā — Names: Ibn MākūlāIbn Mākūlā, al-amīr Abū Naṣr ʿAlī ibn Hibat Allāh, Hadith scholar and poet (d. 485/1092)URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1038
Ibn Mājah — Names: Ibn MājahIbn Mājah, compiler of a canonical collection of hadithsURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1039
Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī — Names: Abū ʿAlī al-JubbāʾīAbū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 303/915), Muʿtazilite from BasraURI: https://usaybia.net/person/104
Ibn Mandawayh al-Iṣfahānī — Names: Ibn Mandawayh al-IṣfahānīIbn Mandawayh al-Iṣfahānī, Abū ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, physician of PersiaURI: https://usaybia.net/person/1040
Ibn Manẓūr — Names: Ibn ManẓūrIbn Manẓūr Abū l Qāsim Aḥmad ibn al Qāḍī Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al Qaysī al Mālikī al Ishbīlī chief qadi...URI: https://usaybia.net/person/1041

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.