• Yuhanna or Youhanna (Arabic: يوحنا) is an Arabic masculine name used by Christians. It is derived from the Syriac masculine given name Yohannan (Classical...
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    (Giovanni Leone in Italian). In Arabic, he preferred to translate this name as Yuhanna al-Asad al-Gharnati (literally means John the Lion of Granada). It is likely...
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    Yuhanna al-Armani al-Qudsi (1726–1786, Cairo, Ottoman Empire) was an artist of Armenian origin in Ottoman Egypt. He is most notable for his religious...
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    John the Evangelist is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John. Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle...
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  • Saliba or Sliba ibn Yuhanna (Arabic: Ṣalībā ibn Yūḥannā) was a medieval Syriac Christian, author of a 1332 Arabic compendium known as The Books of Secrets...
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    Tariq Aziz (redirect from Michael Yuhanna)
    Christian Assyrian family. There are claims he was born Mikhail or Michael Yuhanna (Syriac: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ ܝܘܚܢܢ Arabic: ميخائيل يوحنا) and later changed his name...
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    John of Damascus (Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي, romanized: Yūḥana ad-Dimashqī; Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός, romanized: Ioánnēs ho Damaskēnós, IPA: [ioˈanis o...
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    Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (circa 777–857), (Arabic: يوحنا بن ماسويه), also written Ibn Masawaih, Masawaiyh, and in Latin Janus Damascenus, or Mesue, Masuya...
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  • Yuhanna Makhluf, or John Makhlouf, was the Maronite Patriarch in 1608–1633. Makhlouf was a graduate of the Maronite college in Rome. That college had...
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  • Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu (Johannes Bukhtishu) was a 9th-century Persian or Syriac physician from Khuzestan, Persia. Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu‘ (or Bakhtishu‘)...
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  • Ibrahim ibn Yuhanna (Arabic: إبراهيم بن يوحنا) was a Byzantine bureaucrat, translator, and author from Antioch in the late 10th and early 11th centuries...
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    Schàngi Amharic ዮሐንስ (Yoḥännǝs) Arabic يحيى (Yaḥyā, Qurʾānic), يوحنا (Yūḥannā, Biblical) or حنّا (Henna or Hanna) Aramaic (Syriac) ܝܘܚܢܢ (Yuḥanon), ܚܢܐ...
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  • rendition of the Aramaic Ishuʿ, because both names are of late origin. ** Yuhanna is the Arab Christian name of John, while Yahya is the Muslim version of...
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    life) in Baghdad with Syriac Christian scholars, including the cleric Yuhanna ibn Haylan, Yahya ibn Adi, and Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Baghdadi. He later...
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  • as the name Yahya does. The other Arabic form of the given name John is Yūḥannā يوحنا, which is the form directly derived from the Hebrew original form...
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  • Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century) a Syriac physician from Damascus, known in Europe as Johannes Serapion, and commonly called Serapion the Elder to distinguish...
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    disciple of Euthymius II Karmah. He was ordained priest (taking the name of Yuhanna) after marrying. He also used to work as weaver. In 1627 Za'im had a son...
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  • name Joanna and its variants. The Christian Arabic form of John is يوحنّا Yūḥannā, based on the Judeo-Aramaic form of the name. For Joanna, Arabic translations...
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    Patriarch John X (Arabic: البطريرك يوحنا العاشر al-Baṭriyark Yūḥannā al-ʿĀšir; born Hānī Yāzijī هاني يازجي; January 1, 1955) is primate of the Greek Orthodox...
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    against the ever-present threat of direct Ottoman rule." In 1649, Patriarch Yuhanna al-Sufrari placed the Maronites under French protection, and the French...
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    The Bukhtīshūʿ (or Boḵtīšūʿ) were a family of either Persian or Syrian Eastern Christian physicians from the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries, spanning...
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    footballer Ibrahim al-Yaziji (died 1906), Lebanese writer Ibrahim ibn Yuhanna (ca. 950s–ca. 1030s), Byzantine translator and author Ibrahim Zarman (born...
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    figure that was influential in the development of pharmacy used the name Yuhanna Ibn Masawaiyh (c. 777-857). He was referred to as "The Divine Mesue" and...
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    Hilderic of Farfa, Frankish abbot Kim Yang, viceroy of Silla (Korea) (b. 808) Yuhanna ibn Masawaiyh, Assyrian physician Matudán mac Muiredaig, king of Ulaid...
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  • leukemia". With episcopal approval from Bishop Tadros of Port Said and Bishop Yuhanna of Cairo, "Sallman's Head of Christ was exhibited in the Coptic Church"...
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    leukemia". With episcopal approval from Bishop Tadros of Port Said and Bishop Yuhanna of Cairo, "Sallman's Head of Christ was exhibited in the Coptic Church"...
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  • study under one of the most renowned physicians in the city, Yūhannā ibn Māssawayh. Yūhannā and his colleagues dedicated their lives to the field of medicine...
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    Masawaih al-Mardini (Yahyā ibn Masawaih al-Mardini; known as Mesue the Younger) was a Assyrian physician. He was born in Mardin, Upper Mesopotamia. After...
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  • Christian Europe, 711–1096. 1966. "The Translations of al-Bitrîq and Yahyâ (Yuhannâ) b. al-Bitrîq", in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain...
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  • Persian, for John the Apostle) Youhannon (Malayalam) Yuhana (Mandaic) Yuhanna (Syriac) 約翰 [zh] (Yuēhàn) (Chinese in Traditional Chinese characters, Protestant...
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