This work presents a putative reconstruction, testing the hypothesis that Islam is historically linked to Jewish Christianity. The argument takes the Qur’anic text to be a valid start-point for historical inquiry and reconstructs from biased views of Jewish Christianity the notion of an enduring Nasorean movement. The effective link between the Nasorean movement and the Meccan religious awakening is the preaching of the Qur’anic Prophet Shu’ayb in Midian, on the border of Arabia.

A bilingual edition (Syriac and English) of the service of baptism as used by the Syriac Orthodox Church today.

A bilingual edition (Syriac and English) of the service of matrimony as used by the Syriac Orthodox Church today.

A bilingual edition (Syriac and English) of the service of burial as used by the Syriac Orthodox Church today.

A bilingual edition (Syriac and English) of the church festivals (Christmas, Epiphany, presentation to the temple, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Pentecost, etc.) as used by the Syriac Orthodox Church today.

George Washburn’s memoir describes characters and events during his presidency of Robert College (1877–1903), the first American missionary college in the Ottoman Empire and the Near East, and the first American college founded outside the United States, as well as the rivalry between the declining Ottoman Empire and the rapidly growing United States.