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Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier

Author : Andrew Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521360265
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier written by Andrew Palmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tur cAdin is a plateau skirted by the Upper Tigris in south-eastern Turkey. Syrian Orthodox Christians of Aramaic tongue still worship in its Late Antique churches. Monks converted the region and the most powerful monastery, founded in the fourth century, is still flourishing today. This book grew out of an attempt to document more fully the early history of this abbey. It aims to rediscover the practical and symbolic function of the monuments of Tur cAdin and place them in their original social context. A recurring theme is the relationship between village and monastery and, within each, between community and individual. The final chapters also contribute to our understanding of the Syrian Orthodox community under the Abbasid caliphate. A 500-page microfiche supplement contains the first editions of the Qartmin Trilogy, a monastic text to which the book refers, constantly, and the Book of Life, a unique quasi-epigraphical document of a Christian village and its will to surive.

The Churches and Monasteries of the Ṭur ʻAbdin

Author : Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Churches and Monasteries of the Ṭur ʻAbdin written by Gertrude Lowthian Bell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...and stores, in the best manner and at the lowest rates. We are making a specialty of this business, and are, in a position to make it an object for you to confer with us. We should be pleased to submit designs and prices for any work you may want, either at at present or in the future. Please let us hear from you, and oblige, Yours truly, (89 words) 10. Rogers & Rucker, St. Joseph, Mo. Gentlemen: --Your remittance in settlement of the enclosed statement was received by us December 18th, as you will notice by the stamp on the statement, but, accidentally, the envelope was misdirected, and has just been returned to us this morning, which will explain why you have not received your receipt before. Asking you to please excuse this mistake, and awaiting the pleasure of your further favors, we remain, Yours truly, (76 words) 11. G. H. Davis, Dover, N. H. Dear Sir: --With this mail we send you a sample of our Cold Water Paste, asking that you give it a trial at your earliest convenience. We know it will suit you and that you will use no other, after you have tried this. Read the circular carefully and note the prices. Consider the advantages we have mentioned, and those that may occur to you. We are sure you will then order either a barrel or a box. Yours respectfully, (86 words) 12. A. G. Davidson, Springer, N. M. Dear Sir: --Enclosed you will find a descriptive circular of our new copper range boiler, which we are introducing. It is a strong boiler, guaranteed against collapse and leakage, and inferior to none on the market. Our representative will be there soon with a sample and will call on you and fully explain the construction of this boiler, which is made for both heavy and tank pressure. Should you feel interested, any furthe

The History of Tur Abdin

Author : Ighnāṭyūs Afrām I (Patriarch of Antioch)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Tur Abdin written by Ighnāṭyūs Afrām I (Patriarch of Antioch) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now this first insider-history of Tur Abdin has been unavailable to non-Semitic readers. Written by Patriarch Ignatius Aphram Barsoum in Syriac, this history of the mountainous region in southeastern Asia Minor called Tur Abdin has not found wide readership because of language barriers. This new edition produced by Gorgias Press is a trilingual edition: the original Syriac, and Arabic and English translations.

Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia

Author : Elif Keser Kayaalp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192634097
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia written by Elif Keser Kayaalp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church Architecture of Late Antique Northern Mesopotamia examines the church architecture of Northern Mesopotamia between the fourth and eighth centuries. Keser Kayaalp focuses on settlements, plan types, artistic encounters, the remarkable continuity of the classical tradition in the architectural decoration, the heterogeneity of the building techniques, patrons, imperial motivations, dedications of churches, and stories that claim and make spaces. Employing archaeological and epigraphical material and hagiographical and historical sources, she presents a holistic picture of the church architecture of this frontier region, encompassing the cities of Nisibis (Nusaybin), Edessa (,Sanliurfa), Amida (Diyarbakir), Anastasiopolis (Dara/Oğuz), Martyropolis (Silvan), Constantia (Viranşehir), and their surroundings, and the rural Tur Abdin region. The period covered spans the last centuries of Byzantine and the first century and a half of Arab rule, when the region was, on the one hand, a stage of war and riven by religious controversies, and a cultural interspace on the other. Keser Kayaalp discusses the different dynamics in this frontier region and the resulting built environment and church architecture in pursuit of providing a regional contribution to the study of the transformation that the Byzantine civilization underwent in the late antique period and understanding the continuities and changes after the Arab conquest.

From the Holy Mountain

Author : William Dalrymple
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307948927
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book From the Holy Mountain written by William Dalrymple and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces the footsteps of these two monks, providing along the way a moving elegy to the slowly dying civilization of Eastern Christianity and to the people who are struggling to keep its flame alive. The result is Dalrymple’s unsurpassed masterpiece: a beautifully written travelogue, at once rich and scholarly, moving and courageous, overflowing with vivid characters and hugely topical insights into the history, spirituality and the fractured politics of the Middle East.

Year of the Sword

Author : Joseph Yacoub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190694742
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Year of the Sword written by Joseph Yacoub and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Armenian genocide of 1915 has been well documented. Much less known is the Turkish genocide of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac peoples, which occurred simultaneously in their ancient homelands in and around ancient Mesopotamia - now Turkey, Iran and Iraq. The advent of the First World War gave the Young Turks and the Ottoman government the opportunity to exterminate the Assyrians in a series of massacres and atrocities inflicted on a people whose culture dates back millennia and whose language, Aramaic, was spoken by Jesus. Systematic killings, looting, rape, kidnapping and deportations destroyed countless communities and created a vast refugee diaspora. As many as 300,000 Assyro-Chaldean- Syriac people were murdered and a larger number forced into exile. The "Year of the Sword" (Seyfo) in 1915 was preceded over millennia by other attacks on the Assyrians and has been mirrored by recent events, not least the abuses committed by Islamic State. Joseph Yacoub, whose family was murdered and dispersed, has gathered together a compelling range of eye-witness accounts and reports which cast light on this 'hidden genocide.' Passionate and yet authoritative in its research, his book reveals a little-known human and cultural tragedy. A century after the Assyrian genocide, the fate of this Christian minority hangs in the balance.

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be creative, be adventurous. You don't have to fall down the rabbit hole to enter the magical world of Alice in Wonderland. Just open this giant book and read, color, and remember when you first encountered Lewis Carroll's sublime nonsense and Sir John Tenniel's elegant engravings. Matte Cover 8.5x11' Can be used as a coloring book

Massacres, Resistance, Protectors

Author : David Gaunt
Publisher : Gorgias PressLlc
ISBN 13 : 9781593333010
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Massacres, Resistance, Protectors written by David Gaunt and published by Gorgias PressLlc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering historical investigation of the Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syrian Christian minorities during World War I, who suffered the same fate as the Armenians. Ethnic cleansing and large-scale massacres occurred throughout northern Mesopotamia and parts of Ottoman-occupied Iran. Based on primary sources from official Russian, Turkish, and West European archives, as well as hitherto unused manuscript sources and oral histories published here for the first time, this book attempts to give a full picture of the events of 1915. The book concentrates on the Assyrians of Urmia and Hakkari and on the Syrians of Diyarbekir province, particularly in Tur Abdin.

A Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac

Author : Arthur John Maclean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Dialects of Vernacular Syriac written by Arthur John Maclean and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Syriac Studies

Author : Sebastian P. Brock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Syriac Studies written by Sebastian P. Brock and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Simeon of the Olives

Author : Robert Hoyland
Publisher : Gorgias Press
ISBN 13 : 9781463243463
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Simeon of the Olives written by Robert Hoyland and published by Gorgias Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first ever critical edition and complete translation of the Syriac Life of Saint Simeon of the Olives, who was an abbot of Qartmin Monastery in Tur Abdin and a bishop of the city of Harran in the late seventh and early eighth century AD"--

Desert in the Promised Land

Author : Yael Zerubavel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503607607
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Desert in the Promised Land written by Yael Zerubavel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A complex and fascinating portrait of Israel . . . .an engaging book that combines anthropology, culture, and history.” —Anita Shapira, author of Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel At once an ecological phenomenon and a cultural construction, the desert has varied associations within Zionist and Israeli culture. In the Judaic textual tradition, it evokes exile and punishment, yet is also a site for origin myths, the divine presence, and sanctity. Secular Zionism developed its own spin on the duality of the desert as the romantic site of Jews’ biblical roots that inspired the Hebrew culture, and as the barren land outside the Jewish settlements in Palestine, featuring them as an oasis of order and technological progress within a symbolic desert. Yael Zerubavel tells the story of the desert from the early twentieth century to the present, shedding light on romantic-mythical associations, settlement and security concerns, environmental sympathies, and the commodifying tourist gaze. Drawing on literary narratives, educational texts, newspaper articles, tourist materials, films, popular songs, posters, photographs, and cartoons, Zerubavel reveals the complexities and contradictions that mark Israeli society’s semiotics of space in relation to the Middle East, and the central role of the “besieged island” trope in Israeli culture and politics.

The Lost History of Christianity

Author : John Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061980595
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Lost History of Christianity written by John Philip Jenkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling history of early Christianity in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—from “one of America’s best scholars of religion” (The Economist). In this groundbreaking book, renowned scholar Philip Jenkins explores a vast and forgotten network of the world’s largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These churches and their leaders ruled the Middle East for centuries and became the chief administrators and academics in the new Muslim empire. The author recounts the shocking history of how these churches—those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church—eventually died. Jenkins offers a new lens through which to view our world today, including the current conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Without this lost history, we lack an important element for understanding our collective religious past. By understanding the forgotten catastrophe that befell Christianity, we can appreciate the surprising new births that are occurring in our own time, once again making Christianity a true world religion.

In the Land of a Thousand Gods

Author : Christian Marek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691182906
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book In the Land of a Thousand Gods written by Christian Marek and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental book provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. In this English-language edition of the critically acclaimed German book, Christian Marek masterfully employs ancient sources to illuminate civic institutions, urban and rural society, agriculture, trade and money, the influential Greek writers of the Second Sophistic, the notoriously bloody exhibitions of the gladiatorial arena, and more.

E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam

Author : E. J. Brill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004097940
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam written by E. J. Brill and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans

Author : Hirmis Aboona
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1604975830
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans written by Hirmis Aboona and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars, in the U.S. and elsewhere, have decried the racism and "Orientalism" that characterizes much Western writing on the Middle East. Such writings conflate different peoples and nations, and movements within such peoples and nations, into unitary and malevolent hordes, uncivilized reservoirs of danger, while ignoring or downplaying analogous tendencies towards conformity or barbarism in other regions, including the West. Assyrians in particular suffer from Old Testament and pop culture references to their barbarity and cruelty, which ignore or downplay massacres or torture by the Judeans, Greeks, and Romans who are celebrated by history as ancestors of the West. This work, through its rich depictions of tribal and religious diversity within Mesopotamia, may help serve as a corrective to this tendency of contemporary writing on the Middle East and the Assyrians in particular. Furthermore, Aboona's work also steps away from the age-old oversimplified rubric of an "Arab Muslim" Middle East, and into the cultural mosaic that is more representative of the region. In this book, author Hirmis Aboona presents compelling research from numerous primary sources in English, Arabic, and Syriac on the ancient origins, modern struggles, and distinctive culture of the Assyrian tribes living in northern Mesopotamia, from the plains of Nineveh north and east to southeastern Anatolia and the Lake Urmia region. Among other findings, this book debunks the tendency of modern scholars to question the continuity of the Assyrian identity to the modern day by confirming that the Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia told some of the earliest English and American visitors to the region that they descended from the ancient Assyrians and that their churches and identity predated the Arab conquest. It details how the Assyrian tribes of the mountain dioceses of the "Nestorian" Church of the East maintained a surprising degree of independence until the Ottoman governor of Mosul authorized Kurdish militia to attack and subjugate or evict them. Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans is a work that will be of great interest and use to scholars of history, Middle Eastern studies, international relations, and anthropology.

Jerusalem

Author : Merav Mack
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245211
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem written by Merav Mack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem’s libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world’s most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem’s literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself—perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety—comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.