List of members of the Assyrian Church of the East

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The following individuals have all been affiliated with the Assyrian Church of the East.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hunayn ibn Ishaq</span> Arab Christian scholar, physician and scientist (809–873)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bukhtishu</span> 7–9th-century family of physicians

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samura ibn Jundab</span> Companion of Muhammad

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ishaq ibn Hunayn</span> 9th-century Arab scholar, son of Hunayn Ibn Ishaq

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Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sarī al-Zajjāj was a grammarian of Basrah, a scholar of philology and theology and a favourite at the Abbāsid court. He died in 922 at Baghdād, the capital city in his time.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ubayd Allah ibn Umar</span> Son of second Caliph Umar

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Banu 'Akk</span> Pre-islamic Arab tribe

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Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ṭayyib, known by the nisbaal-ʿIrāqī and in medieval Latin as Abulpharagius Abdalla Benattibus, was a prolific writer, priest and polymath of the Church of the East. He practised medicine in Baghdad and wrote in Arabic about medicine, canon law, theology and philosophy. His biblical exegesis remains the most influential written in Arabic and he was an important commentator on Galen and Aristotle. He also produced translations from Syriac into Arabic.

Aslam ibn Zurʿa ibn ʿAmr ibn Khuwaylid al-Ṣāʿiq al-Kilābī was a prominent Arab chieftain of the Qays tribal faction in Basra and Khurasan and served as the governor of Khurasan in 675 and 677–679. In the period between his two terms, he continued to wield significant influence in the province alongside the governor Sa'id ibn Uthman. Unlike his predecessors and many of his successors, Aslam did not undertake further conquests from the Khurasan frontier into Transoxiana. Regarding possession of war booty and tribute, he consistently defended the interests of the Arab tribesmen in Khurasan, who made up the core of the Umayyad Caliphate's forces there and insisted on controlling the funds due to the high costs of their military activity, against the demands of the central government in Syria. Aslam was known to have imposed heavy taxation on the population of Khurasan. He was arrested by Qays ibn al-Haytham al-Sulami, who extracted from him 300,000 silver dirhams. Aslam was later dispatched to suppress a small Kharijite force in Ahwaz in 680/81, but was defeated. His son Sa'id and grandson Muslim also held high office.

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