1878-1937
Researcher, historian, orientalist and a former priest, who is best known for collecting and preserving the Mingana Collection of ancient Middle Eastern manuscripts at Birmingham. He was born in upper Sharanesh, a village near Zakho (Dohuk).
He entered the Institute of St. John in 1891 and was ordained priest in 1902, then became a teacher of Syriac in the same institute until 1908 He disagreed with his superiors; therefore he left Mosul to Britain in 1913 where he engaged in scientific researches. In 1924, 1925 qnd 1929 Mingana made 3 trips to the Middle East to collect ancient Syriac and Arabic manuscripts. A number of the manuscripts he returned with formed the Mingana Collection at Woodbrooke . He wrote in Syriac, Arabic, English and French. of his important publishing: The grammar of Syriac (in French) Mosul 1905, answering the scholar Yohana Shabu about the history of Barhadbeshba Arabaya, Mosul, 1905/A series of Worbrok’s studies, (7 V.) deal with many Syriac topics and texts and the manuscripts of Birmingham’s safe(3V.) 1933,1936,1939. He published “The History of Erbel,” that attributed to Msheeha Zakha.
