Monk and mason on the Tigris frontier : the early history of Ṭur ʿAbdin
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Monk and mason on the Tigris frontier : the early history of Ṭur ʿAbdin
（University of Cambridge Oriental publications, [no. 39]）
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Accompanied by 2 microfiches in pocket containing ed. of the Qartmin trilogy and the Book of life, with English translation, apparatus, notes and indexes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-246) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Tur cAdin is a plateau skirted by the Upper Tigris in south-eastern Turkey. Syrian Orthodox Christians of Aramaic tongue still worship in its Late Antique churches. Monks converted the region and the most powerful monastery, founded in the fourth century, is still flourishing today. This book grew out of an attempt to document more fully the early history of this abbey. It aims to rediscover the practical and symbolic function of the monuments of Tur cAdin and place them in their original social context. A recurring theme is the relationship between village and monastery and, within each, between community and individual. The final chapters also contribute to our understanding of the Syrian Orthodox community under the Abbasid caliphate. A 500-page microfiche supplement contains the first editions of the Qartmin Trilogy, a monastic text to which the book refers, constantly, and the Book of Life, a unique quasi-epigraphical document of a Christian village and its will to surive.
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Preliminary notes
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Samuel of Eshtin: the hard core of a legend
- 2. Marked out by an angel: the foundation of Qartmin Abbey
- 3. Community and individual: patterns in upper-Tigritane monasticism
- 4. Anastasius and Qartmin: the last monuments to imperial favour
- 5. Mother of bishops: Qartmin Abbey in the annals of the church
- 6. The springs run dry: spiritual and economic exhaustion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Indexes.
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