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Rabban

Rabban may refer to:

  • Glossu Rabban, a character from Frank Herbert's Dune (1965)
  • Joseph Rabban (8th century), Jewish merchant

People with the given name Rabban:

  • Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (circa 838-870), Jewish scientist
  • Rabban Bar Sauma (circa 1220-1294), Chinese Christian
  • Rabban Markos, Patriarch of the Church of the East
  • Simeon Rabban Ata (13th century), high representative of Syriac Christianity

Jewish teachers given the title Rabban, a title traditionally given to the head of the Sanhedrin during Tannaitic times:

  • Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai
  • Rabban Gamaliel
  • Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel
  • Rabban Gamaliel II of Yavneh
  • Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel II

Lectors in the Ancient Church of the East

  • Rabban Bar Sauma
  • Rabban Markos

Category:Masculine given names

Usage examples of "rabban".

Beast Rabban, so they say, will sit once more in the seat of power here on Dune.

Now, I rushed the warning out to Rabban only because the courier had to leave on that Heighliner.

If Rabban is driving his people to meet your spice quotas, then the Emperor need suspect no other motive.

Now, how do we move into Arrakis and make use of what Rabban prepares?

The message was explicit: Rabban was being abandoned to his own resources here on Arrakis!

The building stood as Rabban had restored it, virtually untouched by the fighting although there had been looting by townspeople.

Liet Kynes saw little of his father during his earliest childhood Many of the duties that would ordinarily have been filled by his father had been taken over by Stilgar a Fremen fifteen years Liet Kynes senior whom Pardot Kynes had seen joined to his son in blood brotherhood in 101 j8 Raised with the rest of the sietch children he was taught the ways of bled and sietch, palmary and desert He learned Fremen history as related by the Sayyadina water discipline and customs, and the fanatic hatred the Fremen had possessed for all those of House Harkonnen since the day Beast Rabban had been gi\en jurisdiction over Arrakis in 10162 To anyone not knowing his parentage, the boy would have seemed like any other Fremen youngster, the product of generations of life on the desert planet .

Rabban drained his brandy in a single gulp, while de Vries simply stared at it as if performing a chemical analysis with his eyes.

The monks backed away, and he was glad the others did not try to speak, because Glossu Rabban -- his demonic son -- had no qualms about opening fire on innocents.

He returned to Giedi Prime whenever possible, sometimes just to repair the damage his thickheaded nephew "Beast" Rabban had done while he was gone.