The history of Tur Abdin
By: Aphram Barsoum (Ephrem) I ; translated by Matti Moosa.
Contributors: Moosa, Matti.
Edition: 1st Gorgias Press ed.
Series: Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Eastern United States ; v. 4
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781593337155
Subjects: Syrian Orthodox Church -- Turkey -- Ṭur ʻAbdin -- History; Monasteries, Syrian Orthodox -- Turkey -- Ṭur ʻAbdin; Monasticism and religious orders, Syrian Orthodox -- Turkey -- Ṭur ʻAbdin; Syriac Christians -- Turkey -- Ṭur ʻAbdin -- History; Ṭur ʻAbdin (Turkey) -- Church history; Ṭur ʻAbdin (Turkey) -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Translator's introduction; title: Sources of this book; title: Boundaries of the mountain (Tur Abdin), its people and name; title: The introduction of Christianity to Tur Abdin; title: Ascetics who flourished in the mountain (Tur Abdin); title: Fortresses of Tur Abdin; title: Towns and villages of Tur Abdin; title: Churches of Tur Abdin; title: Monasteries of Tur Abdin; title: The monastery of Qartmin; title: Other patriarchs and maphrians of Tur Abdin; title: Outstanding native bishops of Tur Abdin; title: Bishops who flourished in Tur Abdin; title: Bishops of Tur Abdin who sat in Hah; title: Bishops of the monastery of Qartmin after the split of the diocese; title: Native bishops of Tur Abdin who administered other dioceses; title: Bishops of Tur Abdin in different times; title: Bishops of other dioceses who came from Tur Abdin; title: Patriarchs of Tur Abdin; title: Illegitimate patriarch who sat in Tur Abdin, they are : Maphrians of Tur Abdin; title: Bishops ordained by patriarchs of Tur Abdin each during his patriarchate; title: Accounts of Syrian Church historians about the monastery of Qartmin; title: Account of the historian monk of Qartmin; title: Accounts of some ascetics, pious and venerable men who flourished in the monastery of Qartmin; title: Account of the anonymous history published by Propus whose copy is in London no. 624/14; title: Account of Bar Hebraeus in his ecclesiastical history, part I; title: Account of the historian Rabban Yeshu', Abbot of the Monastery of Qartmin (ascribed to Mar Dionysius Tall Mahre); title: Accounts we copied from the book of life of the monastery of Qartmin; title: Books of the monastery's (of Qartmin); title: Other misfortunes which afflicted the monastery of Qartmin; title: Accounts of Syrian historians about the affairs of Tur Abdin; title: Account of Bar Hebraeus in his Syriac history; title: Account of the historian Mar Mikhai'l al-Kabir (Michael Rabo, the Syrian); title: Account of the anonymous cleric of Edessa; title: Account of the priest Addai of Basibrina around the year 1500 A.D., appended to the history of the learned Bar Hebraeus; title: Travel of the priest Addai of Basibrina; title: The warfare of Timur Khan (Tamerlane) in Tur Abdin taken from another copy; title: The village of Basibrina; title: Miscellaneous chronicles on Tur Abdin derived from ancient Syriac manuscripts preserved in churches and monasteries; title: The Monastery of Mar Yaqub the Hermit in Salah; title: The Monastery of Mar Gabriel (Qartmin); title: The Monastery of Mar Malke; title: The Monastery of the Cross in Atafiya; title: The Monastery of Mar Awgen; title: The Monastery of Mar Sharbil; title: Church of the Virgin in Midyat and other churches; title: Ancient Syriac inscriptions in Tur Abdin on stones, tombs (epitaphs) and front doors of churches and monasteries; title: The church of Mar Azazel in the village of Kafar ze; title: The Church of Mar Cyriacus in Arnas; title: The Church of Basibrina; title: The Church of Hah; title: The Church of Ishtarko (Heshtarke); title: The old Church of Mar Saba; title: The ecession of Tur Abdin from the Apostolic see; title: Dioceses of Tur Abdin; title: Learned men and writers educated in Tur Abdin; title: Syrian calligraphers of Tur Abdin; title: Mar Shim'un (Simon) Zaytuni; title: The family of Tuma Sharqi (Easterner); title: Family of the notable Saba of Basibrina; title: The twelfth century 1110-1200?; title: The Muhallamiyya; title: Governors of Tur Abdin; title: Ayyubid Kings (Lords) of Hisn Kifa; title: Kurdish Bakhti rulers; title: Manslaughter and devastation inflicted by Izz Al-Din Scher and Musawwar Beg in the year 1855; title: Warfare and calamities afflicting Tur Abdin; title: Persecution of the Armeninas and Syrians in 1895; title: Vehement persecution (of the Christians) during world war I.