The Life of Simeon of the Olives : : An entrepreneurial saint of early Islamic North Mesopotamia / / Sebastian Brock, Robert Hoyland.
This book presents 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. His career coincided with the beginning...
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Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Texts from Christian Late Antiquity ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Maps and Figures
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. The Life of Simeon of the Olives: A Christian Puzzle from Islamic Syria
- Chapter 3. Simeon of the Olives and his World: Life on the Khabur Basin during the early Islamic period
- Chapter 4. Edition and Translation
- Appendix 1. Simeon at the funeral of Mar Gabriel (RH)
- Appendix 2. Simeon at the court of al-Ma’mun (RH)
- Bibliography
- Index of Persons and Places