Bar Hebraeus (Ibn Al-‘Ibri)
BAR HEBRAEUS (Ibn al-‘Ibri) An Orthodox Syrian, born at Malatiyyah in 1226. His full name was Abu al-Faraj Jamal al-Din ibn Taj al-Din Harun ibn Tuma al-Malati. He came from a family of Christian (not Jewish, as has sometimes been maintained) origin. He studied medicine and philosophy with his father, and then emigrated to Antioch …