Six Months in a Syrian Monastery 1593331525, 9781593331528

The Syrian Patriarchate Educational Society was a 19th century English missionary society of modest work. If it is not f

242 70 28MB

English Pages 446 [441] Year 2004

Report DMCA / Copyright

DOWNLOAD PDF FILE

Table of contents :
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
Recommend Papers

Six Months in a Syrian Monastery
 1593331525, 9781593331528

  • 0 0 0
  • Like this paper and download? You can publish your own PDF file online for free in a few minutes! Sign Up
File loading please wait...
Citation preview

Six Months in a Syrian Monastery

s-, /- " > ft.>*

,

tit m

i, *iSfV « / * ' Ili ' í