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Abū Ghālib monastery (monastery)

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A monastery in Karkar that existed from 1138 to 1600. Patriarch Michael the Great rebuilt its church in 1170.

Names

  • Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܐܒܘܓܠܒ = DYRʾ DʾBWGLB 1

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian 1 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), 700 [Syriac].
    • couvent d’Abou Ghaleb: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 341, 374, 482 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Abū Ghālib monastery” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/place/27.

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