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Yihye
Yihye or Yihyeh is a Hebrew given name. A variant is Yihyah. Notable people with the name include: * Yihye Bashiri (died c. 1661), Yemenite Rabbi * Yihye Haybi (1911–1977), Yemenite photographer See also * Yahya (name) {{given name Hebrew-language given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yihye Haybi
Yihye Haybi ( he, יחיא חייבי; 1911–1977) was a Yemenite photographer of Yemenite Jewish extraction who emigrated to Mandate Palestine and finished his life in Israel. At a time when there were no local photographers in Yemen, Haybi photographed the Jewish community to which he belonged, Europeans he encountered at the Italian medical clinic where he worked, members of the Muslim population, and even the royal family. His photographs offer unique historical and ethnographic glimpses of Sana'a at this time, including the illicit documentation of current events. Biography Yihye (Yechiel) Haybi was born in 1911 in Sana'a, what would soon become the capital of an independent Yemen. His parents were Joseph and Zahara Haybi. At the age of 12–13 he studied at the school of Rabbi Yiḥyah Qafiḥ. He helped his father who owned a shop selling salves, oils and creams. At the age of 18 he travelled to relatives in Eritrea. He then went to Italy and later returned to Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yihye Bashiri
Yihye Bashiri (), also spelt Yahya al-Bashiri (b. ? – d. 1661), known by his pen-name ''Avner bar Ner ha-Sharoni'', and by the acronym ''Maharib'' (''moreinu harav yihye bashiri''), was a Yemenite Rabbi, professional scrivener and sofer of the Masoretic Text whose works of Hebrew manuscripts now account for many now stored in public libraries across the globe, including the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Rab.1276; Rab. 36; Rab. 4550), Cambridge University Library (Add.1726, p. 1-a; Add. 3407), the Russian State Library (MS. Günzburg 869) and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (MS. 764), et al. Rabbi Yiḥyah Salaḥ coined him the epithet, "the great scribe of the Law." A man of uncommon piety, he is also known for an act of intervention on behalf of his community in Yemen, which brought miraculous deliverance to the Jews of Sana'a when they stood in danger of annihilation by the king, on account of libel and slander brought against them. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yihyah
Yihyah a Hebrew given name, a variant of Yehya, Yehia, Yahia Yahya, Yihye Yihye or Yihyeh is a Hebrew given name. A variant is Yihyah. Notable people with the name include: * Yihye Bashiri (died c. 1661), Yemenite Rabbi * Yihye Haybi (1911–1977), Yemenite photographer See also * Yahya (name) {{given name Hebrew-la ..., etc. It may refer to: * Yiḥyah Qafiḥ (1850–1931), Chief Rabbi in Yemen * Yiḥyah Salaḥ, alternatively Yichya Tzalach; Yehiya Saleh), known by the acronym of Maharitz (1713–1805), rabbi in Yemen * Yihya Yitzhak Halevi (1867 – 1932) {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahya (name)
Yahya ( ar, يحيى, Yaḥyā), also spelled ''Yehya'', is an Arabic male given name. According to the Qur'an, Qur'anic narrative, it is an Arabic form of the given name John (given name), John, originally Hebrew ''Yohanan'' (''Yəhôḥānān'' יְהוֹחָנָן "Yahu is gracious"), i.e. primarily John the Baptist, who is known as Yahya ibn Zakariyya in Islam, and is considered a prophet in Islam. For this reason, Yahya is a comparatively common name in the Muslim world. The related Biblical name of Jehiah (''Yᵊḥîyâ'' יְחִיָּה "Yahu lives") has the Arabic form ''Yaḥiyyā'' ., having the same Arabic consonantal text as the name Yahya does. In Persian language, Persian, Yahya is a title of address for a senior village or community elder. It is also a common nickname for the Muhammad al-Mahdi, 12th Imam. Mononym * Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), Arabic medical writer known in medieval Europe as Johannes Serapion * Yahya ibn Khalid (died 806), Vizier of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
