Eliya ibn ʿUbaid
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Eliya ibn ʿUbaid (Arabic: إيليا بن عبيد), also called Īlīyā al-Jawharī,[lower-alpha 1] 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.[lower-alpha 2] He wrote in Arabic. He died after 903.