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Thabit b. Qurra - ܬܐܒܬ ܒܪ ܩܘܪܗ

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“Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit b. Qurra b. Marwān al-Ṣābī al-Ḥarrānī, the most famous of the ‘Ṣābian’ scholars from the Abbasid period, is one of the few non-Christian authors known by name who composed works in Syriac.” 1

Names

  • ܬܐܒܬ ܒܪ ܩܘܪܗ
  • Thabit b. Qurra
  • Thābit b. Qurra1

Birth

826?1

Death

9011

Notes

“Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit b. Qurra b. Marwān al-Ṣābī al-Ḥarrānī, the most famous of the ‘Ṣābian’ scholars from the Abbasid period, is one of the few non-Christian authors known by name who composed works in Syriac.” 1
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  • 1 H. Takahashi, "Thābit b. Qurra." in Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), pp: 399-400, 399-400.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.

How to Cite This Entry

James E. Walters et al., “Thabit b. Qurra — ܬܐܒܬ ܒܪ ܩܘܪܗ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/777.

Bibliography:

James E. Walters et al., “Thabit b. Qurra — ܬܐܒܬ ܒܪ ܩܘܪܗ .”, edited by David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 2 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/777.

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Entry Title: Thabit b. Qurra — ܬܐܒܬ ܒܪ ܩܘܪܗ

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  • Editing, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts and addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH by Nathan P. Gibson

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