The Priest Yuhanna (John) of Basibrina
(d. 1729)
John is son of the priest Aziz, son of the priest Isaiah nicknamed Qardash the Qalanzi by origin but was born and raised in Basibrina. He studied under masters of his time and was ordained a priest in 1702. He died in 1729. He composed two rhymed odes, the first in the dodecasyllabic meter on prayer;630 the second, in the heptasyllabic meter, on the invasion of Tur Abdin in October, 1714.631 His verse is of mediocre quality.