Yawsep ʼAbrāhām, d-Rāwandúz, 1750-1832
He did translations from Arabic into both Syriac and Turkish (Garshuni), spanning the years 1798-1829, and he was a member of a Chaldean Catholic community. He mentions spending time in ʻAynkāwah, Kirkuk, Erbil, and Baghdad. Born in Rāwandūz in northern Iraq, he moved to ʻAynkāwah as a child. He spent five years in Malabar, southern India, beginning in 1797 and otherwise lived in northern Iraq and Baghdad. He reformed portions of the liturgy, wrote poems in Turkish and Syriac, wrote dictionaries and grammars of classical and vernacular Syriac, and translated Arabic texts into Syriac and Turkish.
- HMML ID
- 925312876918
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- LC name
- Yawsep ʼAbrāhām, d-Rāwandúz, 1750-1832
- HMML name
- Yawsep ʼAbrāhām, d-Rāwandúz, 1750-1832
- HMML native script
- ܝܘܣܦ ܐܒܪܗܡ، ܕܪܘܢܕܘܙ
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Variants
- Ankavalı, Yûsuf bin İbrâhim
- Joseph Abraham
- Yawsep Abraham
- Yawsep ʼAbrāhām
- Yūsuf Ibrāhīm
- عنقبلى، يوسف بن ابراهيم
- يوسف إبراهيم الراوندوزي
Personal information
- Birth date
- 1750
- Death date
- 1832
- Centuries
- 18th century CE ● 19th century CE
- Gender
- Males
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Preferred citation
"Yawsep ʼAbrāhām, d-Rāwandúz, 1750-1832." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified October 01, 2021. https://w3id.org/haf/person/925312876918
Change notes
- Date added
- 2021-06-17
- Last edited
- 2021-10-01