Mār Abḥay (monastery)

URI https://medievalmideast.org/place/112

Also known as the Monastery of the Ladders, this monastery was founded sometime after the fifth century CE on the bank of the Euphrates, near the village of ʿUrbīsh.

Names

  • Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܐܒܚܝ = DYRʾ DMRY ʾBḤY 1
  • Syriac: ܣܒ̈ܠܬܐ = SBLTʾ 2

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 1-2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 569 [Syriac].
    • Abḥai: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 148, 170, 171, 181, 246, 247, 280-283, 334, 452, 465, 471, 474, 476, 479 [French].
    • Abḥai: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), 32, 56, 192 & n.568, 256, 262 [Syriac with English translation].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 643 [Syriac].
    • Sébelata: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 280, 469, 470 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Mār Abḥay” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/112.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and categorization, matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Evan Willford: place categorization; abstract; and Syriac Gazetter matching
  • Jessica Mutter: categorization, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
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