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  "ar": "يحيى بن سرافيون",
  "en": "Yahya Ibn Sarafiyun"
 },
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  "ar": "يحيى بن سرافيون وجميع ما ألفه سرياني وكان في صدر الدولة وقد نقل كتاباه في الطب إلى العربي كتاب كناش يوحنا الكبير اثنتا عشرة مقالة وكتاب الكناش الصغير سبع مقالات {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 412}.",
  "en": "Yahya ibn Sarafiyun — Serapion, whose two Kunnash were Englished into Arabic {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim}"
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  "sources": [
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   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 3
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "ابن النديم، الفهرست",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "model": "SWE-2 Medium",
   "run": "prose-fill-persons-batch19"
  },
  "unverified_dates": {
   "died": {
    "edtf": "875~",
    "calendar": "gregorian",
    "precision": "year",
    "derived": true,
    "note": "Date-enrichment pass; source: al-Fihrist (Ibn al-Nadim)"
   }
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "يحيى بن سرافيون، كان في صدر الدولة وجميع ما ألفه بالسريانية؛ نُقل كتاباه في الطب إلى العربي: كناش يوحنا الكبير في اثنتي عشرة مقالة والكناش الصغير في سبع مقالات. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 413}"
    }
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    "lang": "ar",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-11-03"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Yahya ibn Sarafiyun, in the early days of the state, all of whose compositions were in Syriac; his two medical books were translated into Arabic — the Greater Kunnash of Yuḥanna in twelve discourses and the Lesser Kunnash in seven. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 413}"
    }
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    "id": "person/yahya-ibn-sarafiyun",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), batch 19"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-03"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "یحییٰ بن سرافیون، دولتِ ابتدائیہ کے زمانے کا جس کی ساری تصانیف سریانی میں تھیں؛ طب پر اس کی دو کتابیں عربی میں ترجمہ ہوئیں — بارہ مقالوں پر مشتمل بڑی کناش اور سات مقالوں کی چھوٹی کناش۔ {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 413}"
    }
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    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), batch 19"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-03"
  }
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-14",
 "connections": [
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   "to": "place/al-sham",
   "type": "lived_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Yahya ibn Sarafiyun (Serapion), Syrian Christian physician (al-Fihrist).",
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  }
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