Index of Notable Persons in the Syriac Tradition within Select Arabic Sources

An Adaptation of G. Kiraz’s Catalogue at the Beth Mardutho Research Library

Compiled by Emilee Walker Cornetta; Foreword by George Anton Kiraz

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This volume contains the contents of George Kiraz’s catalogue of over 1300 people and places related to the Syriac tradition, expanded to include Latin names and citations as well as references to the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage.

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-0162-3

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Series: Gorgias Handbooks 24

Publication Date: Dec 13,2011

Interior Color: Black

Trim Size: 6 x 9

Page Count: 90

Language: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-0162-3

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This volume contains the contents of George Kiraz’s catalogue of over 1300 people and places related to the Syriac tradition and corresponding citations in select Arabic sources of the twentieth century, including Barsoum’s al-Luʾluʾ al-manthūr and Tārīkh Tūr ʿAbdīn, Yaʿqub III’s Tārīkh al-kanīsah al-suryāniyyah and the Patriarchal magazines of Damascus and Jerusalem. Included are the names in Arabic script as found in the catalogue, Latin renderings of the names and citations, and, where applicable, references to corresponding articles in the Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. The index encourages wider use of these important Arabic sources for the purpose of obtaining biographical data on an extensive array of figures in and around the Syriac tradition.

Emilee Walker Cornetta is a graduate student in the Master of Divinity program at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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	Contributor	Biography
	Emilee Walker Cornetta	Emilee Walker Cornetta is a graduate student in the Master of Divinity program at Princeton Theological Seminary.
	George Kiraz	George A. Kiraz is the founder and director of Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute, the Editor-in-Chief of Gorgias Press, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He earned an M.St. degree in Syriac Studies from the University of Oxford (1991) and an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (1992, 1996). He has published extensively in the fields of computational linguistics, Syriac studies, and the digital humanities. His latest books include The Syriac Orthodox in North America (1895–1995): A Short History (2019) and Syriac-English New Testament (2020). George is an ordained Deacon of the rank of Ewangeloyo (Gospler) in the Syriac Orthodox Church where he also serves on several Patriarchal, Synodal, and local committees. He lives in Piscataway, NJ, with his wife Christine and their children, Tabetha Gabriella, Sebastian Kenoro, and Lucian Nurono.

Table of Contents (page 5)
Foreword (page 7)
Preface (page 9)
Abbreviations (page 11)
Frequently Quoted Publications (page 13)
Index (page 15)

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