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Ani Ma’amin

Ani Ma’amin n. Hebrew (ah-NEE mah-ah-MEEN) Literally, “I believe.” These are the first words of Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles of Faith, the 12th of which says, I believe with complete faith in the coming of the Messiah. Even though he may tarry I will wait for him on any day that he may come.” These words …

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Al-Rashid Abu Al-Khayr Ibn Al-Tayyib (?-After 1270)

Eminent / By Armia FAYEZ

AL-RASHID ABU AL-KHAYR IBN AL-TAYYIB (?-after 1270) A Priest, theologian. Al-Rashid Abu al-Khayr ibn al-Tayyib worked as a priest, physician, and possibly also scribe to a Muslim notable. He was the author of a number of theological and apologetic works, most notably Tiryaq al-‘uqul fi ‘ilm al-usul (The Theriac of Intellects in Fundamental Theology), an …

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Ahrun Ibn A‘Yan Al-Qass

Eminent / By Youssef Matta

AHRUN IBN A‘YAN AL-QASS A priest and physician of Alexandria who, with PAUL OF AIGINA, was one of the last great physicians of the School of Alexandria. Contrary to the opinion of F. Sezgin, who thinks that Ahrun lived in the sixth century, he lived in the seventh century and at the beginning of the …

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Abu Al-Khayr Al-Rashid Ibn Al-Tayyib

Eminent / By Youssef Matta

ABU AL-KHAYR AL-RASHID IBN AL-TAYYIB Thirteenth-century physician, priest, and author. The most significant, modern source of information on him is G. Graf’s Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur (1947, Vol. 2, pp. 344-48), from which the following data come. His writings, largely in defence of Christianity, were composed in the period between 1204 and about 1245 …

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