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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Simon Luke RobinsonBurkeThe Principles of Religion: A Work of Rabban Daniel Ibn al-Ḥaṭṭābhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/XVQFMLL2https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/XVQFMLL2https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/XVQFMLL22022The subject of this dissertation is The Principles of Religion, a book composed by a Syriac Orthodox monk, Rabban Daniel b. al-Ḥaṭṭāb, in the Arabic language between 1274-89/90 C.E., possibly in Mardin, Turkey. This book has enjoyed some limited circulation over the centuries, having been found in fourteen manuscripts written by scribes in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Egypt, and Lebanon from 1289/90 to 1935 C.E. In it, Daniel gives a summary exposition of and apologetic for Syriac Orthodox doctrine using both philosophical and Scriptural resources. The book systematically addresses the topics of God and His attributes, the Holy Trinity, and the incarnation, ending with responses to various objections to Jacobite belief and practice. It is an example of intellectual activity and literary production among Jacobites during the Syriac renaissance that witnesses to how Syriac Orthodox doctrine and literature were adapted and presented in Arabic in the 13th century. The dissertation’s purpose is to present and explain the contents of Daniel b. al-Ḥaṭṭāb’s Principles of Religion by providing a discussion on the book’s authorship, its literary and historical context, its transmission, an English translation, a commentary, and a critical edition.
Burke, Simon Luke Robinson. “The Principles of Religion: A Work of Rabban Daniel Ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sydney, 2022.
Simon Luke Robinson Burke, The Principles of Religion: A Work of Rabban Daniel Ibn al-Ḥaṭṭāb (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sydney, 2022).Arab ChristiansDaniel ibn al-KhattabJacobitesVII-XVIII CEXIII CEprimary sources [Arabic] + English translationtheology