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Also Known As Shihāb ad-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī
Born June 12, 1301 • Damascus • Syria
Died March 1, 1349 (aged 47) • Damascus • Syria
Subjects Of Study Mamluk dynasty
Selim I
Selim I
Ottoman sultan
ʿAlī Bey
Mamlūk governor of Egypt
Sergius of Resaina
Syrian theologian
Bashar al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad
president of Syria
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Syrian bishop
Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III
Umayyad caliph
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
archbishop of Constantinople
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Syrian author
Hafez al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad
president of Syria
Theodoret Of Cyrrhus
Syrian theologian
Michel ʿAflaq
Syrian political leader
Theodore Of Mopsuestia
Syrian theologian
Theōdūrus Abū Qurrah
Syrian bishop
Severian Of Gabala
theologian
Saint Ephraem Syrus
Christian theologian
Al Neimi, Salwa
Salwa Al Neimi
Syrian author and journalist
Sophronius
patriarch of Jerusalem
Khalid Bakdash
Syrian politician
Akram al-Hawrani
Syrian politician
Eusebius of Nicomedia
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