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In hagiography: Ḥananya of Dayr al-Zaʿfaran was a Syrian Orthodox bishop of Mardin and Kfartuto. He built a monastery that was named after him on the ruins of the monastery of Slemun.

Names

  • Hananya of Dayr al-Zaʿfaran
  • ḤANĀNYA DE DAYR AL-ZA'FARĀN1

Death

826

Sex

male1

Notes

In hagiography: Ḥananya of Dayr al-Zaʿfaran was a Syrian Orthodox bishop of Mardin and Kfartuto. He built a monastery that was named after him on the ruins of the monastery of Slemun.The appendix of Barsaum in the text of Shābushtī confuses this monastery with the homonym which speaks of the author.6
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  • 1 Jean-Maurice Fiey, Saints Syriaques, Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam 6 (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 2004), entry: 187. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 3 Paul Peeters, Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, Subsidia Hagiographica 10 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1910), entry: 373. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 4 Jean Vincent Scheil, La Vie de Mar Benjamin. Texte Syriaque, Zeitschrift Für Assyriologie 12 (1897): 62–96, p: 91-92. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 5 Isaac Barsaum, Nuzhat Al-Aḏhān Fī Ta’rīh Dayr al-Za‘farān (Histoire Du Couvent de S. Hanania Appelé Deir-Uz-Zapharan) (Mardin, 1917), p: 14-19. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 6 al-Šābuštī, Kitāb Al-Diyārāt, ed. K ‘Awwād (Bagdad, 1966), p: 281. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 7 Enciclopedia dei santi: le chiese orientali [=  Bibliotheca sanctorum orientalium], 2 vols. (Roma: Città nuova, 1998), vol: IIp: 156-57. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Hananya of Dayr al-Zaʿfaran” last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/1264.

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Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent et al., “Hananya of Dayr al-Zaʿfaran.”, edited by ., edited by Nathan P. Gibson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2016. Entry published August 17, 2016. http://syriaca.org/person/1264.

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