Title: Sketches from Eastern history
Subjects: Christian saints, Church history, Islam, Saints, Semites
Places: Islamic Empire, Syria, Syric
People: Abū Jaʻfar Manṣūr Caliph (ca. 712-775), Bar Hebraeus (1226-1286), Theodore II Negus of Ethiopia (d. 1868), Ya'kūb ibn al-Lait̲h̲ al Ṣaffār (d. 879)