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Ignatius Niʿmatallah ( ar, البطرك نعمة اللّٰه, la, Nehemias, syr, ܦܛܪܝܪܟܐ ܢܥܡܗ̈ ܐܠܗ) was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1557 until his resignation in 1576. Biography Early life Niʿmatallah was born at Mardin in , and was the son of Maqdisi John and Hissin. He had brothers named Ignatius David II Shah, David Shah, Thomas, Mina, and Constantine. His father John was the son of Muglah and Nūr al-Dīn, brother of Patriarch Ignatius John XIV (). Through Nūr al-Dīn, Niʿmatallah was the great-grandson of Šay Allāh, son of Sa‘d al-Dīn; his paternal ancestors had moved from Bartella, near Mosul, to Mardin in the mid-14th century, and were descended from the priest Abū al-Karam, who lived in the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries. At Mardin, Niʿmatallah was educated in theology, history, logic, astronomy, medicine, philosophy, and geodesy, and he also studied painting and Syriac literature. He became a mon ...
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