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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

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 vol. 12 (1897)., 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 (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] (Roma: Città nuova, 1998)., vol: II, p: 156-57.Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

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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