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George, Bishop of the Arabs
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George, bishop of the Arabs (7th to 8th cents. CE), was a Syriac Orthodox cleric who wrote in Syriac on theological subjects and on Aristotelian philosophy. Little is known of his life, but information necessary to contextualize his writings comes from later West Syriac chronicles and his own extant letters. He was born probably around 660 CE (rather than 640 CE as suggested by V. Ryssel, 1891, 109), possibly in the region of Antioch (Tannous, 2008, 672–674), and consecrated bishop in Nov…
Date:
2024-01-19
Paul the Persian
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Paul the Persian (Syr. Paulos Pārsāyā, fl. sixth century C.E.) was the author of two works extant in Syriac on Aristotelian logic. One is dedicated to “King Khusraw,” presumably Khusraw I Anūshirwān (r. 531–79 C.E.), a patron of Greek philosophy. The other was translated from Persian to Syriac by Severus Sebokht (d. 47/666–7). Apart from the dedication to Khusraw, nothing certain is known of Paul’s life. The veracity of late reports (in the fourth/tenth-century
Chronicle of Seert (
Histoire nestorienne inédite), 7/2:147, and in Barhebraeus (d. 685/1286), 3:97–8) that he bel…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-05-25
