Syriac-language writers

Syriac saint, theologian and writer (c. 306 – 373)

Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Syrian or Tatian the Assyrian, (; ; ; ; – ) was an Assyrian Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.

Mesopotamian astronomer and mathematician

Eastern Orthodox saint

Gregory Barhebraeus or Bar Hebraeus (; 1226 – 30 July 1286), also known as Abu al-Faraj and in Latin, Abulpharagius, was the maphrian Catholicos of the East (regional primate) of the Catholicate of the East under the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1264 until his death in 1286. He is recognised as one of the most accomplished and multifaceted academics of the medieval Syriac Christian world, with important contributions to the fields of theology, philosophy, history, linguistics, medicine, and the natural sciences.

Arab Christian scholar, physician and scientist (809–873)

Aphrahat (c. 280–c. 345; , Ap̄rahaṭ, , , , and Latin Aphraates), venerated as Saint Aphrahat the Persian, was a third-century Syriac Christian author of Iranian descent from the Sasanian Empire, who composed a series of twenty-three expositions or homilies on points of Christian doctrine and practice. All his known works, the Demonstrations, come from later on in his life. He was an ascetic and celibate, and was almost definitely a son of the covenant (an early Syriac form of communal monasticism). He may have been a bishop, and later Syriac tradition places him at the head of Mar Mattai Monas

Bardaisan (11 July 154 – 222 AD; , Bar Dayṣān; also Bardaiṣan), known in Arabic as ibn Dayṣān () and in Latin as Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking Christian writer and teacher with a Gnostic background, and founder of the Bardaisanites.

Iraqi-born Australian Christian cleric

Syriac writer and bishop

6th-century Byzantine historian

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Syriac Bishop of Edessa (c.640-708)

Assyrian writer and theologian (died 523)

Greek theologian and bishop

Abbasid Caliphate scholar

Syrian bishop and saint

thumb|325x325px|Ruins in Edessa, the famous [[Syriac Christian school]] Rabbula (; romanized ''Rabūlā d'Urhāy'') was a bishop of Edessa from 411/2 to August 435/6 AD, noteworthy for his opposition to the views of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Nestorius. However, his successor Ibas, who was in charge of the school of Edessa, reversed the official stance of that bishopric. Rabbula is not to be confused with the otherwise unknown scribe of the 6th century Rabbula Gospels. He is venerated as a saint by the Oriental Orthodox Church (feast on August 7/8 according to the Syriac Orthodox Church), with po

120th Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (1887–1957)

bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East (died 1318)

Greek astrologer

Assyrian writer

Persian physician

Syrian author

Patriarch of Antioch (1913–1980)

Assyrian bishop

Patriarch of the Church of the East

Narsai (sometimes spelt Narsay, Narseh or Narses; , name derived from Pahlavi Narsēh from Avestan Nairyō.saȵhō, meaning 'potent utterance'; ) was one of the foremost of the poet-theologians of the early Church of the East, perhaps equal in stature to Jacob of Serugh, both second only to Ephrem the Syrian. He is venerated as a saint in all the modern descendants of the Church of the East; the Chaldean Catholic Church, Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, and Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. Saint Narsai is known as the 'Flute of the Holy Spirit.'

Syriac writer

Arab Christian philosopher (c.870–940)

Patriarch of Antioch, head of the Syriac Orthodox Church

Assyrian writer and nationalist

British academic (1878-1937)

East Syriac archbishop, writer and scholar

Iraqi poet, christian arab physician of Baghdad, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher

Syriac Orthodox Church bishop and scholar (died 1171)

Syrian physician

Arab Christian philosopher (893–974)

Syriac writer

medieval bishop and theologian of the Church of the East

Iranian historian

Syriac Nestorian physician

Patriarch of Antioch

Syrian writer

7th-century Middle Eastern Jacobite author of anti-chalcedonian Syriac writings

patriarch of Antioch

Cyrillona, also spelled Qurilona (fl. 4th century AD), was an early Syriac poet. He was the younger contemporary of Ephrem the Syrian. It is speculated that he might have been a nephew of Ephrem. He was a contemporary of Balai of Qenneshrin. Gustav Bickell has referred to him as the most important Syriac poet after Ephrem.

Syriac Orthodox Maphrian and Theologian

Ahudemmeh was the Grand Metropolitan of the East in the Syriac Orthodox Church from 559 until his execution in 575. He was known as the Apostle of the Arabs, and is commemorated as a saint by the Syriac Orthodox Church.

bishop

Assyrian bishop and author of an important monastic history in Syriac

8th century Syriac Christian exegete and apologist

Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church (1885–1969)

Syriac philosopher and physician (943–1008)

Chaldean Patriarch

Patriarch of Antioch

Lebanese polymath, Philanthropist, writer, poet, scholar, historian of the Arab Press, dignitary of the Syriac Catholic community and founder of the Great Library of Beirut (1865–1956)

theologian and rhetor

Syrian Christian orthodox bishop, miaphysite, translator of the New Testament into Syriac