History of the Zaʻfarān Monastery
By: Aphram (Ephrem) I. Barsoum ; translated by Matti Moosa.
Edition: 1st Gorgias Press ed.
Series: Publications of the Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Eastern United States -- 7
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9781593336394
Subjects: Dayr Zaʻfarān (Monastery : Turkey) -- History; Monasteries -- Turkey -- Mardin İli; Mardin İli (Turkey) -- Church history
Table of contents: title: The location of the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The Church of Mar Hananya; title: The Sayyida (Virgin Mary) Church; title: Church of the patriarchal throne; title: The mausoleum or burial chamber of fathers; title: The paradise; title: The origin of the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: Monasticism in Mardin and its outskirts; title: The different names of the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The biography of metropolitan Yuhanna of Mardin; title: Yuhanna's narrative about the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The rebuilding of the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: Biographies of the known superiors of the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The monastic order of the Zaʻfarān Monastery in its early ages; title: The Zaʻfarān Monastery as center of the Patriarchal See of Antioch; title: The councils convened at the Zaʻfarān Monastery to elect patriarchs; title: The names of patriarchs and maphryone ascribed to the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The Metropolitans who graduated from the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The fathers buried in the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: Patriarchs of Antioch; title: The patriarchs of Tur Abdin; title: The Maphryone of the East; title: The Metropolitans; title: The councils convened at the Zaʻfarān Monastery and their canons; title: Learning and learned men at the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The library of the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The properties of the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The monasteries neighboring the Zaʻfarān Monastery; title: The Sayyida Monastery; title: Mar Jacob Monastery; title: Mar Azazel Monastery; title: Mar Behnam Monastery; title: Mardin : its diocese and bishops.