ʿaḇdīsōʿ Of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet and Scribe - (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity) by Anton Pritula (Hardcover)

About the Book

ʿAḇdīsōʿ of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet and Scribe focuses on the literary legacy of this prominent East Syrian poet and churchman who lived in the 16th century.

Book Synopsis

ʿAḇdīsōʿ of Gazarta: Patriarch, Poet and Scribe focuses on the literary legacy of the prominent East Syrian poet and churchman who lived in the 16th century. The role of ʿAḇdīsōʿ of Gazarta for East Syriac ecclesiastical poetry is significant. He was the second patriarch of the Chaldean Church and the founder of its literary tradition.

This book also explores for the first time the manuscript autographs of ʿAḇdīsōʿ of Gazarta, previously unavailable to scholars. In addition, many of this author's poetic texts are critically published and translated for the first time.

About the Author

Anton D. Pritula, Ph.D. (2001), Hab. (2021), is Curator and Lead Researcher in the Oriental Department at the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), and Professor and Chief Research Fellow in the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, HSE University (Moscow). He has published monographs and articles on the culture of the Christian communities in the Islamic Middle East, including The Warda: An East Syriac Hymnological Collection. Study and Critical Edition (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015).