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Yahbalaha III - ܝܗܒܐܠܗܐ ܬܠܝܬܝܐ

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"Mar Yahbalaha III, an ethnic Uighur and a monk of the Ch. of E., was born in the vicinity of Khān Bālīq (Beijing)."1

Names

  • ܝܗܒܐܠܗܐ ܬܠܝܬܝܐ
  • Yahbalaha III
  • ܝܗܒܐܠܗܐ4
  • Yahballaha4
  • Ya(h)ḇallāhā4
  • Markos
  • Yahbalaha III1

Birth

ca. 1245

Death

1317

Notes

"Mar Yahbalaha III, an ethnic Uighur and a monk of the Ch. of E., was born in the vicinity of Khān Bālīq (Beijing)."1 In hagiography: Yahbalaha III is commemorated along with his travelling companion Rabban Sauma. Together they journeyed from Dadu on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem which opened to them paths of leadership and diplomacy within the Church of the East.
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  • 1 J. P. Amar, Yahbalaha III, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 429429. 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: Yahbalaha III