Shlemun of Khilāṭ
Date of Birth: Last quarter of the 12th century
Place of Birth: Possibly Khilāṭ (Akhlāṭ) on the western shore of Lake Van in present day eastern Turkey; he is surnamed Klaṭāyā (‘from Khilāṭ’)
Date of Death: After 1222
Place of Death: Unknown
Biography
Shlemun of Khilāṭ, the name found in Bar Brikhā’s catalogue (ed. Assemani, p. 309), or Solomon of Basra as he is generally called in Western literature, was …