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Book/Printed Material The Weapon of Religion and the Shield of Certainty.

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Title

  • The Weapon of Religion and the Shield of Certainty.

Summary

  • Shem'un al-Turani was born in 1670 near Tur Abdin in present-day Turkey. He studied in Tur Abdin and became a monk at the age of twenty. He was appointed maphrian-historically the prelate second to the patriarch in the hierarchy of the Syriac Orthodox Church-in 1710 and took the name Basileios. Maphrian Basileios Shem'un was martyred in 1740. Kitāb silāḥ al-dīn wa-turs al-yaqīn (The weapon of religion and the shield of certainty) contains his polemical treatise in support of Syriac Orthodox doctrine and practice and against those of the Catholics and the Church of the East. Unlike his other major work, Kitāb al-te'ōlōġiyyā (Book of theology), which was written in Syriac and later translated into Garshuni, this work was written in Garshuni (Arabic words in Syriac script). The copy shown here was completed in August 1724 by a scribe named Zakarya.

Names

  • Basileios, Shemun, Maphrian, 1670-1740 Author.
  • Zakarya Scribe.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1724-08.

Headings

  • -  Turkey
  • -  1724
  • -  Catholic Church
  • -  Church of the East
  • -  Syrian Orthodox Church

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 135 pages ; 21.5 x 16 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo.
  • -  Content in Arabic and Syriac.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • St. George Church (Urfa Collection)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667694

Online Format

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  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Basileios, Shemun, Maphrian, Author, and Zakarya Scribe. The Weapon of Religion and the Shield of Certainty. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -08, 1724] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667694/.

APA citation style:

Basileios, S. & Zakarya Scribe. (1724) The Weapon of Religion and the Shield of Certainty. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -08] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667694/.

MLA citation style:

Basileios, Shemun, Maphrian, Author, and Zakarya Scribe. The Weapon of Religion and the Shield of Certainty. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, -08, 1724] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667694/>.