Dayr al-Zaʿfarān - ܕܝܪܐ ܕܙܥܦܪܐܢ
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“A Syr. Orth. monastery dedicated to Mar Ḥnonyo (Arab. Ḥanānyā) located outside Mardin, and the seat of the patriarchate from 1293 until after World War I.”1
Names
- ܕܝܪܐ ܕܙܥܦܪܐܢ
- Dayr al-Zaʿfarān2
- ܕܰܝܪܳܐ ܕܙܰܥܦܰܪܐܢ3
- دير الزعفران4, 8
- عمر الزعفران8
- Dayro d-Mor Ḥnonyo2
- Dayr al-Zafarān
- Dayr al-Zaʿfaran9, 10
- Dayr al-Za‘farān
- Dayr Mār Ḥanānyā2
- monastery Deir Zafaran6
- Zafaran Monastery
- Zafarān (West Syrian)
- Zaʿfaran Monastery5
- Zaʿfarān (West Syrian)7
- Za‘faran Monastery
- Za‘farān (West Syrian)
Place Type
monastery
Location
- Coordinates
(preferred):
- Lat. 37.2994048000° Long. 40.7925797000°9
Attestation
Notes
In Dolabani's translation of Barsoum's description “ܘܐܰܦܩ” and “ܡܟܰܬܒܰܙܰܒܢܗ”
should read “ܘܰܐܦܩ” and “ܡܰܟܬܰܒܙܰܒܢܗ” respectively.
Matti Moosa's English translation of Barsoum's description is incomplete, and it says "north" when it should be "east."
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- 1 G. A. Kiraz,Al-Zaʿfarān, Dayr,inThe Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 449.
- 2 Sebastian P. Brock et al.,Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 4, 5, 9, 38, 46, 48, 60, 62, 64, 77, 100, 103, 117, 129–130 (with fig. 43), 141,
165, 178, 183, 224, 226, 244, 245, 265, 267, 270, 308, 343, 346, 375, 381, 393, 438,
446, 449, 468 (fig. 129c), 469 (fig. 130c), 470 (fig. 131c), map: Map III.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ
ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ
ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag,
1991), p: 545-546.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم,كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus
Verlag, 1987), p: 510.
- 5 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum,The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 570.
- 6 Sergey Minov, ed.,A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: monastery Deir Zafaran.
- 7 David Wilmshurst,The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913, CSCO 582, Subs. 104 (Louvain: Peeters, 2000), p: 38, 95.
- 8 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī and ياقوت الحموي,معجم البلدان (Beirut: دار الكتب العلميةDār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: II:580; IV:174.
- 9 Ian Mladjov,Diachronic Maps of Syriac Cultures and Their Geographic Contexts,inThe Syriac World, ed. Daniel King and David A. Michelson (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), xxvii–xxxiii,
map 1–14, map: 14.
- 10 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson,Index of Maps,inThe Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 827.
- 11 p: 718-730., p: 718-730.
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Additional Credit:
- Data merging for Syriac World maps data by William L. Potter
- Syriac World maps edited by David A. Michelson
- Syriac World maps data revised by William L. Potter
- Syriac World maps cartography by Ian Mladjov
- Connection to the Syriac World identified by Thomas A. Carlson
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
- Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
- Syriac description entry by Robert Aydin
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Initial Barsoum entry creation by David A. Michelson