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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān II: Quick Facts

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Died 852
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Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
Umayyad caliph
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Sophronius
patriarch of Jerusalem
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Khalid Bakdash
Syrian politician
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Akram al-Hawrani
Syrian politician
Madīnat al-Zahrāʾ
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III
Umayyad caliph
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I
Spanish Umayyad ruler
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Abu Muslim
Muslim leader
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Sergius of Resaina
Syrian theologian
St. Ignatius of Antioch
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Syrian bishop
Bashar al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad
president of Syria
St. John Chrysostom
St. John Chrysostom
archbishop of Constantinople
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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Syrian author
Hafiz al-Assad, President of Syria, shown in a black-and-white headshot wearing a suit and patterned tie, photographed in 1980.
Hafez al-Assad
president of Syria
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Theodoret Of Cyrrhus
Syrian theologian
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Michel ʿAflaq
Syrian political leader
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Theodore Of Mopsuestia
Syrian theologian
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Theōdūrus Abū Qurrah
Syrian bishop
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Severian Of Gabala
theologian
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Saint Ephraem Syrus
Christian theologian
Al Neimi, Salwa
Salwa Al Neimi
Syrian author and journalist