Eliya ibn ʿUbaid

Eliya ibn ʿUbaid (Arabic: إيليا بن عبيد), also called Īlīyā al-Jawharī, was a theologian, philosopher, canonist and chronographer of the Church of the East. He served as the bishop of Jerusalem from 878 or 879 until 893 and then as the archbishop of Damascus. He wrote in Arabic. He died after 903.

"Elias of Damascus" redirects here. For the 8th-century Christian saint, see Elias of Heliopolis.
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