Six Months in a Syrian Monastery : : Being the Record of a Visit to the Head Quarters of the Syrian Church in Mesopotamia with some Account of the Yazidis or Devil Worshippers of Mosul and El Julwah, their Sacred Book / / Oswald H. Parry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Parry, Oswald H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 p.) :; 19
• Other title: Frontmatter --; PREFATORY NOTE --; INTRODUCTION --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; CHAPTER I. THROUGH THE SYRIAN GATES --; CHAPTER II . FROM ALEPPO TO THE EUPHRATES. --; CHAPTER III. BIREJIK TO DIARBEKR --; CHAPTER IV. Diarbekr --; CHAPTER V. Mardin—The Patriarch's Diwan --; CHAPTER VI. MARDIN AND ITS SYRIAN INHABITANTS.—I --; CHAPTER VII. MARDIN, AND ITS SYRIAN INHABITANTS, II --; CHAPTER VIII . MABDIN, AND ITS MOSLEM INHABITANTS. --; CHAPTER IX. DEIR-EL-ZA'AFERAN --; CHAPTER X. LIFE IN THE MONASTERY --; CHAPTER XI. TWO SYRIAN VILLAGES --; CHAPTER XII. DARA . --; CHAPTER XIII. Jebel Tur —the Mountain Home of the Syrians --; CHAPTER XIV. BISHERI AND NORTHERN JEBEL TUR. --; CHAPTER XV. MIDHIAT, AND THE MONASTERY of DEIE-EL-OMAR --; CHAPTER XVI. ACROSS THE; PLAIN FROM MARDIN TO MOSUL. --; CHAPTER XVII. THE TWO CITIES ON THE TIGRIS --; CHAPTER XVIII. THE YAZIDIS. --; CHAPTER XIX. THE MONASTERY OF MAE MATTHA, AND THE SYRIANS OF MOSUL. --; THE OLD SYRIAN CHURCH --; CHAPTER I. THE CHURCH OF ANTIOCH. --; CHAPTER II. MODERN HISTORY OF THE OLD SYRIANS. --; CHAPTER III. THE CLERGY AND CHURCHES OF THE OLD SYRIANS --; CHAPTER IV. THE CUSTOMS AND CONDITION OP THE OLD SYRIANS --; APPENDIX --; THE YAZIDIS OF MOSUL --; TRANSLATION OF ARABIC MS . HISTORY OF THE YEZIDIS --; ITINERARY --; GLOSSARY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463209889; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463209889
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Oswald H. Parry.

This is an expert description of the Syrian Orthodox Church and all the more important for being practically the only book of its kind, even now. Parry is among the best writers in the genre of ecclesiastical tourism.