Anthony the Qurayshite Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal The International Balzan Prize Foundation The National Endowment for the Humanities Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent David A. Michelson Editing, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent Data architecture and encoding by David A. Michelson Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal http://syriaca.org/person/1132/tei

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 2016-08-17-04:00 The Syriac Biographical Dictionary Nathan P. Gibson David A. Michelson Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent Daniel L. Schwartz William L. Potter Daniel L. Schwartz http://syriaca.org/persons Gateway to the Syriac Saints Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent http://syriaca.org/saints Qadishe: A Guide to the Syriac Saints Will Potter David A. Michelson Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent I http://syriaca.org/q

This is a born digital project. However, our starting point for collecting this data was the 470 saints contained in J. M. Fiey’s Saints syriaques. Fiey's original work has been expanded and the current database contains over 1000 entries.

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Significant updates to syriacaAll and syriacaPersons schemas have required updates to data and fixing of errors in the data. The most significant updates were to the relation, status, and seriesStmt elements and to the @ana att on person and personGrp. Major updates to data model in conjunction with schema work requiring some updates to data as well. CHANGED: Implemented July 2020 batch changes, see https://github.com/srophe/srophe-app-data/issues/878. Update persName texts nodes from new headwords. Add bibl ptr elements. Split names in authors into forename and surname. Change: tagged abstract for persons, places, titles and edited the "en" persNames Move headword attribute from Gedesh to first English name. Change: tagged abstract for persons, places, titles and edited the "en" persNames CREATED: person Anthony the Qurayshite Antoine le Qurayshite ANTOINE LE QURAYSHITE, martyr http://syriaca.org/person/1132 44 In hagiography: Anthony the Qurayshite, born Ruhi, was a convert to Christianity from Islam, the nephew of Harun al-Rashid. He was martyred for refusing to return to Islam. There is an Arabic version of the passion of Anthony. 799 male Martyr Saint Saints Syriaques ANTOINE LE QURAYSHITE, martyr 44 Fiey Chretiens syriaques 58 J.M. Fiey BSO I 210-11 J. Dick Le Museon 109-33 S.H. Griffith Le Museon 331-74