Абульфарадж
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Abulfaraj (Bar-Hebreus)., born in Malatin on the Euphrates in 1226, died in Maragha in Adarbejan 1286; son of a Jewish doctor who converted to Jacobiteism; was appointed Bishop of Gubos in 1246, Bishop of Aleppo in 1247 and Mathrian or Primate of the Jacobites in Chaldea, Assyria and Mesopotamia in 1261. Author of numerous works, of which the Chronicle Suriacum was published in Syriac and Latin; "Civil Chronicle" by Bruns and Kirt (Leipzig, 1788), and "Church Chronicle" ed. Abbelus and Lamy (Louvain, 1872); Historia Compendiosa in Arabic and Latin, an extract from the above-mentioned work by Pocock (Oxford, 1663); Syriac grammar, liturgy and various lesser works in Wiseman: Horae Suriacae, and Bernstein: Chrestomatia Syriaca.