Elias of Nisibis - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Elias of Nisibis - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Bertaina, David

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061503
Doc. NO	:	ALei1900
Main Entry	:	Bertaina, David
Title & Author	:	Elias of Nisibis - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Bertaina, David
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,106 words)
Abstract	:	Elias of Nisibis (b. 364/974–5, d. 438/1046–7) was the most significant theologian writing in Christian Arabic during the fifth/eleventh century. He served as metropolitan archbishop of Nisibis (present-day Nusaybin, Turkey) for the East Syriac (“Nestorian”) Church of the East from 399/1008 to 438/1046. He was born in Shīnāyā (hence his nickname Bar Shīnāyā), near the Tigris, south of the Great Zab River. He was ordained a priest in 384/994 by Yuḥannā b. ʿĪsā (d. 401–2/1011), a bishop who would
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1900.pdf