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Abraham of Kashkar - ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ

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“Monk, founder and abbot of the ‘Great Monastery’ on Mount Izla.”1

Names

  • ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ
  • Abraham of Kashkar
  • ܐܒܪܗܡ3
  • ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ3
  • Abraham de Kashkar3
  • ABRAHAM DE KAŜKAR4
  • Abraham e Kashkar15
  • Abraham Kashkaraya
  • Abraham the Great
  • Abraham of Kashkar1
  • ʾAḇrāhām3
  • ʾAḇrāhām Kaškarāyā3

Birth

4924 or ca. 5001

Death

5864 or 5881

Sex

male4

Event

The saint is venerated on 2 May by East Syrians. 4

Notes

“Monk, founder and abbot of the ‘Great Monastery’ on Mount Izla.”1
In hagiography: Abraham of Kashkar (Abraham the Great of Kashkar, or "the elder") was a celebrated reformer of monasticism in Mesopotamia and a great saint of the Church of the East. A student of the School of Nisibis, Abraham was a missionary, ascetic, and miracle-worker. He was called "Father of the Monks of the Orient."
The rules of Abraham of Kashkar were edited in Syriac and translated into English by Vööbus.11
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Works Cited

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  • 1 L. Van Rompay,Abraham of Kashkar,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 8-9.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Abraham of Kashkar.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Ugo Zanetti and Claude Detienne,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Syriaca, n.d, entry: 982, 981.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Jean-Maurice Fiey,Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 23.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Īšō‘dnāḥ de al-Baṣra,Le livre de la chasteté, ed. Jean Baptiste Chabot (Rome, 1896), http://ebooks.library.ualberta.ca/local/lelivredelachast00ishduoftLink to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 Paulus Bedjan,Liber Superiorum, Seu Historia Monastica, Auctore Thoma, Episcopo Margensi. Liber Fundatorum Monasteriorum in Regno Persarum et Arabum. Homiliae Mar-Narsetis in Joseph. Documenta Patrum de Quibusdam Verae Fidei Dogmatibus (Paris / Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1901), book: I, chapter: 4.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Mārī Ibn Sulaymān and E Gismondi,Aḫbār faṭārika kursī al-mašriq min kitāb al-maǧdal (Rome: C. de Luigi, 1899), p: ٤٧.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 8 Addai Scher,Chronicle Of Seert, Patrologia Orientalis, 2015, http://archive.org/details/ScherChronicleOfSeertcombined1, vol: II, p: 41-43.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Archive.org Bibliographic record
  • 9 Paul Peeters,Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 14.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 10 Ernest A. Wallis Budge,The Histories of Rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and Rabban Bar-‘Idtâ, 3 vols., Luzac’s Semitic Text and Translation Series 9-11 (London: Luzac and Co., 1902), p: 406-408.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 11 Arthur Vööbus,Syriac and Arabic Documents Regarding Legislation Relative to Syrian Asceticism, Papers of the Estonian Theological Society in Exile 11 (Stockholm: Estonian Theological Society in Exile, 1960), p: 1960, 150-62.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 12 Alfred Baudrillart et al.,Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1912), vol: I, col: col. 174-75.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 13 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: I, p: 26-28.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 14 Anton Baumstark,Geschichte Der Syrischen Literatur, Mit Ausschluss Der Christlich-Palästinensischen Texte (Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1922), p: 130-131.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 15 Ignatius Ortiz de Urbina,Patrologia Syriaca, Altera editio emendata et aucta (Romae: Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, 1965), section: 72.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 16 J.-B. Chabot,Littérature Syriaque, Bibliothèque Catholique Des Sciences Religieuses (Librairie Bloud & Gay, 1934), p: 52-53.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Abraham of Kashkar — ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ ” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/320.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Abraham of Kashkar — ܐܒܪܗܡ ܟܫܟܪܝܐ .”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/320.

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Entry Title: Abraham of Kashkar — ܐܒܪܗܡ 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, proofreading, data entry and revision by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
  • Editing, document design, data architecture, encoding, proofreading, data entry by David A. Michelson
  • Proofreading of GEDSH abstracts, addition of confessions and alternate names from GEDSH, matching with viaf.org records, data entry, data transformation, data merging, conversion to XML by Nathan P. Gibson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English name entry, matching with viaf.org records by James E. Walters
  • Editing, Syriac name entry, disambiguation research, conversion to XML by Thomas A. Carlson
  • Editing, Syriac data conversion, data entry, and reconciling by Adam P. Kane
  • Editing and Syriac data proofreading by Aram Bar Schabo
  • Syriac name entry by Robert Aydin
  • Normalization of GEDSH dates and entry matching with viaf.org records by Alex Vawter
  • Editorial oversight for GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry, and proofreading by Christopher Johnson
  • GEDSH and Barsoum English text entry and proofreading by the Syriac Research Group, University of Alabama
  • Entries adapted from the work of Ugo Zanetti
  • Entries adapted from the work of Claude Detienne

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