# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masarjawaih
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:59:33.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masarjawaih"
name: "Masarjawaih"
slug: "masarjawaih"
description: "Māsarjawaih was one of the earliest Jewish physicians of Persian origin, and the earliest translator from the Syriac; he lived in Basra about 683. His name, distorted, has been transmitted in European sources; it has not yet been satisfactorily explained. Neuda compares the name \"Masarjawaih\" with the Hebrew proper name \"Mesharsheya\"; but the ending \"-waih\" points to a Persian origin. The form \"Masarjis\" has been compared with the Christian proper name \"Mar Serjis\"; but it is not known that Masarjis embraced either Christianity or Islam."
tagline: "Iranian translator and physician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           40.71
  momentum:             3.478260869565217
  historical:           6.540029333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%81"
    title: "ماسرجویہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "ماسرجويه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masarjawaih"
    title: "Masarjawaih"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%87"
    title: "ماسرجویه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%A8%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%94"
    title: "מאסרג'וויה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%92"
    title: "マーサルジャワイヒ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A2serceveyh"
    title: "Mâserceveyh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6782638"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump