• Gabriel ibn al-Qilai (in exact Arabic transcription: Jibrāyīl ibn al-Qilā'i, in Latin: Gabriel Benclaius or Barclaius; 1447 – 1516), was a Lebanese Christian...
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    Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve. According to the medieval historian Gabriel ibn al-Qilai, the name “Kesrwan” derives from the Maronite muqadam Kisra of Baskinta...
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  • 2007). Gabriel Ibn al-Qilāʻī, ca 1516: approche biographique et étude du corpus. Kaslik, Lebanon: PUSEK. p. 434-435. Ce poème est attribué à Ibn al-Qilā'i...
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  • homage to the Byzantine Emperor, John II Komnenos. According to Gabriel ibn al-Qilai, after being received in the Byzantine court: The Emperor, placing...
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    (mentioned in 1357) Jacob Al-Matrity (mentioned in 1385) Elias (before 1431 - after 1445) Youssef (died 1505) Gabriel ibn al-Qilai (1505–1516) Maroun (1516...
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  • Zajal (category Literature of al-Andalus)
    zajal in what is present-day Lebanon is thought to be the Bishop Gabriel ibn al-Qilai Al-Hafadi (1440–1516), although some scholarship traces Lebanese zajal...
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  • 15th-century Maronite historian Gabriel ibn al-Qilai mentions only Maronites. The Mamluk chronicle of Badr al-Din al-Ayni (d. 1453) is considered "the...
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  • missionary work to the Maronites. Whilst the Maronite historian Gabriel ibn al-Qilai does not mention Noah, he does attest to his disciples and their...
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