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Sauma, Rabban - ܪܒܢ ܨܘܡܐ

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"Ṣawma was a monk of the Ch. of E. who, sometime around 1275, set out from Dadu (also known as Khān Bālīq, i.e. modern Beijing) in his native China with a younger disciple, Markos, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem."1

Names

  • ܪܒܢ ܨܘܡܐ
  • Sauma, Rabban
  • ܨܘܡܐ3
  • Rabban Sauma2
  • Sauma
  • Ṣaumā3
  • Sauma3
  • ṣawmā
  • Ṣawma, Rabban
  • Ṣawma, Rabban1

Floruit

13th cent.

Notes

"Ṣawma was a monk of the Ch. of E. who, sometime around 1275, set out from Dadu (also known as Khān Bālīq, i.e. modern Beijing) in his native China with a younger disciple, Markos, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem."1 In hagiography: Sauma, Rabban is commemorated as the monastic teacher and travelling companion of the monk Markos who became the catholicos Yahbalaha III. Acting on behalf of the catholicos, Rabban Sauma travelled to Constantinople, Rome and even Paris.
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  • 1 J. P. Amar, Ṣawma, Rabban, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 360-361. 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: Rabban Sauma