Zuqnin - ܕܝܪܐ ܕܙܘܩܢ̈ܝܢ
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Place Type
monastery
Descriptions
“ܠܒܰܪ ܡܶܢ ܐܳܡܝܕ ܕܰܝܪܳܐ ܪܰܒܐ ܘܰܛܒܝܒܳܐ. ܢܦܰܩ ܡܶܢܗ ܐܝܘܰܐܢܝܣ ܩܰܕܡܳܝܐ 755 ܘܐܰܪܒܰܥܣܰܪ ܐܶܦܝܣܩܘ̈ܦܶܐ.” 2
“بظاهر ديار بكر دير عظيم مشهور نشأ منه اياونيس الاول 755+ واربعة عشر اسقفاً” 3
“outside Diyarbakir, is a famous, great monastery. Patriarch John I (d. 775) and fourteen bishops graduated from it.” 4
Notes
In Dolabani's translation of Barsoum's description “ܘܐܰܪܒܰܥܣܰܪ” should read “ܘܰܐܪܒܰܥܣܰܪ” .
In Barsoum's description “اياونيس” should read “ايوانيس” .
In Moosa's English translation of Barsoum's description, "775" should be "755."
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- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 18, 201, 408, 438.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 546.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 511.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 570.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Zuqnin
— ܕܝܪܐ ܕܙܘܩܢ̈ܝܢ
” last modified February 6, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/358.
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