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Barhebraeus: Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj Yūḥannā Ghrīghūriyūs ibn Tāj al-Dīn Tūmā al-Malaṭī ibn al-ʿIbrī

Name (arabic)

جمال الدين أبو الفرج يوحنّا غريغوريوس بن تاج الدين توما الملطي بن العبري
Name (translit)

Barhebraeus: Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faraj Yūḥannā Ghrīghūriyūs ibn Tāj al-Dīn Tūmā al-Malaṭī ibn al-ʿIbrī
Alias

Grīḡōriyōs Bar ʿEḇrāyā
Grīḡōriyōs Bar ʿEḇroyo
Abū al-Faraj b. al-ʿIbrī
Ibn al-ʿIbrī
Bar Hebraeus
Abū al-Faraj
Born

621H/1225J
Flourished

Died

684H/1286J
Born in

Malatya
Lived in

Baghdad
Tabrīz
Marāgha
Malatya
Mosul
Number in MAMS

633
Biography URL

http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Barhebraeus_BEA.htm
ismi_id

38032

Authored Works

6 works:

Astronomy: General

Kēthābā dē-zīg dē-sharwāyē
[Arabic Commentary on “Almagest”] (Barhebraeus)

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Sullāqā Hawnānāyā

Geometry: General

[Syriac Exposition of Euclidʾs “Elements”]

OTHER

Ḥewath ḥekhmẹthā
Kitāb mukhtaṣar al-duwal , کتاب مختصر الدول

References

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Vol. V, pp. 387, 389, 443.

Takahashi, Hidemi. 2005. Barhebraeus: A Bio-Bibliography. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.
Takahashi, Hidemi. 2004. Aristotelian Meteorology in Syriac: Barhebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, Books of Mineralogy and Meteorology. Leiden; Boston: E. J. Brill.
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No. 633, pp. 225-26.

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 225-26 (no. 633).

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Pp. 152-58 (pp. 411-30 of the 4th edition; this work was originally published in: Hims, Syria, 1943, and reprinted as: 4th ed., Glane/Losser: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987).

Barhebraeus,. 1997. Book of Zelge by Bar‐Hebreaus [sic], Mor Gregorius Abulfaraj, the Great Syrian Philosopher and Author of Several Christian Works [Ktaba D-Zalge Wsurara D-Setese Idtanayete]. Book of Rays, facsimile. Istanbul: Zafer Matbaası.

"Book of Rays," facsimile edition.

Çiçek, YūliyōsYeshūʿ. 1997. Mnorath Kudshe (Lamp of the Sanctuary) by Mor Gregorios Yohanna Bar Ebryoyo. Glane/Losser: Bar Hebraeus Verlag.

"Candelabrum of the Sanctuary;" whole work, in Syriac only.

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Vol. 2, pp. 415-17.

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Pp. 154-55.

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Pp. 373-75.

Mieli, Aldo. 1943. “Abu Al-Farag Yuhanna Ibn Al-ʿIbrī Al-Malaṭī (Barhebraeus)”. Archeion 25 (1): 56-63.
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Reprinted in: Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1968, pp. 312-20.

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Vol. 2, pp. 468-69.

Nau, François. 1899. Le Livre De l’ascension De l’esprit Sur La Forme Du Ciel Et De La Terre : Cours d’astronomie rédigé En 1279 Par Grégoire Aboulfarag, Dit Bar Hebræus. 2 vol. Paris: Émile Bouillon.

"Ascent of the Mind," with French translation.

Leclerc, Lucien. 1876. Histoire De La médecine Arabe: Exposé Complet Des Traductions Du Grec; Les Sciences En Orient, Leur Transmission à l’Occident Par Les Traductions Latines. 2 vol. Paris: E. Leroux.

Vol. 2, pp. 147-51.

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Pp. 294- 95.

Abbeloos, Jean, and Thomas Lamy. Gregorii Barhebraei Chronicon Ecclesiasticum. 3 vol. Louvain; Paris: Peeters.
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Reprinted in: "Candelabrum of the Sanctuary" in Patrologia Orientalis, nos. 110 and 118. Turnhout: Brepols, 1988. [With French translation]

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