Aba of Kashkar - ܐܒܐ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ
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Polymath, author, and diplomat during the reigns of Shah Khusrau II of Persia (r. 590-628),
Emperor Maurice of Byzantium (r. 582-602),
Catholicos Sabrishoʿ I (r. 596-604) and
Catholicos Gregory I (r. 605-608/9).
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Names
- ܐܒܐ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ6, 7
- Aba of Kashkar3
- Aba of Kashkar
- ܐܰܒܳܐ ܟܰܫܟܪܳܝܳܐ2
- ܐܲܒܵܐ ܟܲܫܟܪܵܝܵܐ1
- Aba of Kashkar
- Àb(h)ā v Kaškar3
Floruit
late 6th/early 7th cent.3
Notes
Polymath, author, and diplomat during the reigns of Shah Khusrau II of Persia (r. 590-628),
Emperor Maurice of Byzantium (r. 582-602),
Catholicos Sabrishoʿ I (r. 596-604) and
Catholicos Gregory I (r. 605-608/9).
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Aba of Kashkar should be distinguished from
the later Catholicos Aba II of Kashkar,
with whom he has sometimes been confused (by Wright, among others).
He should also be distinguished from Abraham of Kashkar, despite a note by Assemani
that could seem to imply their identity.
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Status: draft
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Works Cited
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- 1 ʿAbdishoʿ bar Brikha, Ktābā d-metqre margānitā d-ʿal šrārā da-kresṭyānutā, 2nd ed. (Mosul: Mṭabbaʿtā ātoraytā d-ʿēdtā ʿattiqtā d-madnḥā, 1924), pp: 74.
- 2 Josephus Simonius Assemani, Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana (Rome: Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728)., pp: III:154.
- 3 Anton Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Webers Verlag Dr. jur. Albert Ahn, 1922), pp: 123-124.
- 4 William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1894), pp: 186-187, Note:
Wright conflates this person with Catholicos Aba II of Kashkar (r. 741-751).
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Bibliography:
David A. Michelson et al., “Aba of Kashkar — ܐܒܐ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ .”, edited by David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson. Vol. 2 of The Syriac Biographical Dictionary, edited by David A. Michelson. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1086.About this Entry
Entry Title: Aba of Kashkar — ܐܒܐ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ
Additional Credit:
- Data from Macuch, Abuna, De Urbina, Duval, Assemani (vols. 1-2), Chabot, Wright, and Brock collected, verified, reconciled, and entered by Kristian Heal
- German data entry by Samer Khader
- Editing, document design, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
- Matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
- Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
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