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Ananias of Damascus (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ n aɪ ə s / AN-ə-NY-əs; Ancient Greek: Ἀνανίας, romanized: Ananíās; Aramaic: ܚܢܢܝܐ, romanized: Ḥananyō; "favoured of the L ORD") was a disciple of Jesus in Damascus, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sight of Saul of Tarsus (who later was called Paul the Apostle ...
Ananias - one of the Seventy Disciples [1] Apollodorus of Damascus - Syrian architect; Ibn al-Nafis - polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy. He is mostly famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. [2]
Ananias of Damascus; Andrew of Crete; Anthony-Rawḥ al-Qurashī; Feras Antoon; Apollodorus of Damascus; Amal Arafa; Raed Arafat; Ghayth Armanazi; As-Salih Ismail al-Malik; Shukri al-Asali; Muhammad al-Ashmar; Hafez Bashar al-Assad; Maher al-Assad; Abdullah Atfeh; Ivonne Attas; Moussa Ayoub; Sadiq Jalal al-Azm; Bashir al-Azma; Yusuf al-Azma ...
The Death of Ananias, by Raphael, 1515, Raphael Cartoons. Ananias (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ n aɪ. ə s /; Biblical Hebrew: חָנַנְיָהּ , romanized: Chānanyah) and his wife Sapphira (/ s ə ˈ f aɪ r ə /; סָפִירַה , Ṣafīrah) were, according to the biblical New Testament in Acts of the Apostles chapter 5, members of the early Christian church in Jerusalem.
Annas (also Ananus [1] or Ananias; [2] Hebrew: חָנָן, khanán; Koinē Greek: Ἅννας, Hánnas; 23/22 BC – death date unknown, [3] probably around AD 40) was appointed by the Roman legate Quirinius as the first High Priest of the newly formed Roman province of Judaea in AD 6 – just after the Romans had deposed Archelaus, Ethnarch of Judaea, thereby putting Judaea directly under ...
Amused by the fact that they share a name, Sinbad the Sailor relates the tales of his seven wondrous voyages to his namesake. [4] Sinbad the Sailor (Arabic: السندباد البحري; or As-Sindibād) is perhaps one of the most famous characters in the Arabian Nights. He is from Basra, but in his old age, he lives in Baghdad. He recounts ...
The House of Saint Ananias (also called Saint Ananias House or Chapel of Saint Ananias; Arabic: كَنيسَةُ الْقِدِّيسِ حَنَانِيَا, romanized: Kanīsat al-Qiddīs Ḥanāniyā) is an ancient underground structure in Damascus, Syria, that is said to be the remains of the home of Ananias of Damascus, where Ananias baptized Saul (who became Paul the Apostle). [1]
Ananias ben Onias, son of the priest who founded the Jewish Temple at Leontopolis Hananiah of Damascus, known as Ananias of Damascus , Hellenized Jewish mystic, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as a convert to Christianity and early companion of Saul of Tarsus