Isho`dnah
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Isho`dnah was an East Syriac writer who flourished ca. 860 AD. He was metropolitan of Prat d-Maishan, modern Basra.[1]
Works
- Book of Chastity or History of the Founders of Monasteries in the realms of the Persians and the Arabs.FT This is a collection of 140 short notices concerning monastic figures, beginning with Mar Augen, supposedly in the 4th century, and continued down to the mid-9th century.
Bibliography
- FT by J.B.Chabot (1891)
References
- ↑ Sebastian Brock, A brief outline of Syriac literature, Moran Etho 9, (1997), p. 68 and p. 138.
