The Arabic Church (212-1297 AD)

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Latest release: June 15, 2024
Series
9
Books
Treatise on the Arab Works of Theodore Abu Qurrah
Book 1·Feb 2011
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Theodore (تواضروس أبو قرة) appears to have composed this treatise in defense of the Christian faith against the political and intellectual attacks many many of of his Jewish and Islamic contemporaries. He is also deeply concerned with the question of Christological Orthodoxy, defending the doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon against the Nestorian polemicists who seek to battle with Theodore's own West Syriac orthodoxy. His apologetic work would be preserved for some centuries with the aid of the Byzantine Church.
The Jacobite Arab Synaxarium: Volume I- Month of Thout
Book 2·Jul 2015
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The Jacobite Arab Synaxarium is a hagiographical volume on the life of the saints of the Jacobite church. This is commonly a collection of the saints that would be venerated in the Arabic or West Syriac churches, traditionally part of the Syriac Orthodox Church. This synaxarium stands apart from other calendars of saints, as it is composed specifically for this church tradition, and has not previously been available in the English language. This first volume consists of the first month of the Coptic calendar- Thout, corresponding roughly to the month of September.
The Jacobite Arab Synaxarium: Volume II- Month of Paopi
Book 3·Jan 2017
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The Jacobite Arab Synaxarium is a hagiographical volume on the life of the saints of the Jacobite church. This is commonly a collection of the saints that would be venerated in the Arabic or West Syriac churches, traditionally part of the Syriac Orthodox Church. This synaxarium stands apart from other calendars of saints, as it is composed specifically for this church tradition, and has not previously been available in the English language. This second volume consists of the second month of the Coptic calendar- Paopi, corresponding roughly to the month of October.
The Jacobite Arab Synaxarium: Volume III- Month of Hathor
Book 4·May 2018
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The Jacobite Arab Synaxarium is a hagiographical volume on the life of the saints of the Jacobite church. This is commonly a collection of the saints that would be venerated in the Arabic or West Syriac churches, traditionally part of the Syriac Orthodox Church. This synaxarium stands apart from other calendars of saints, as it is composed specifically for this church tradition, and has not previously been available in the English language. This third volume consists of the second month of the Coptic calendar- Hathor, corresponding roughly to the month of November.
The Arabic Version of the Passion of St. Catherine of Alexandria
Book 5·Sep 2019
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The text recounts the story of the Coptic saint, Catherine of Alexandria, a virtuous woman from Alexandria, who challenges a king's idol worship, engages in debates with local philosophers, endures miraculous interventions, and ultimately faces martyrdom for her unwavering faith in God. This hagiographical account appears distinctive as it circulated in northern Arabia in late antiquity.
Arabic Version of the 127 Canons of the Apostles
Book 6·Jul 2020
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Demonstrations of the Faith
Book 7·Aug 2021
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Theodore in this work appears to be addressing two issues. The first of which is the Christological question that was addressed by the Council of Chalcedon in prior centuries. His base of operation within the Arab world made this question complicated as there was limited ecclesiastical or political authority to be able for help him to maintain his base against anti-Chalcedonian bishops in the region. Secondly, Theodore appears to want to address the issue of Marcionism, and clarify the utility of both the Greek in Hebrew scriptures working in concert within the Christian Gospel.
The Georgian Passion of Sts. Theodore, Julian, Eubulus, Malcamon, Mocimus, & Salamanes
Book 5·Jun 2022
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This is a work that is fragmentary in the form that it survives. It is drawn upon a Georgian manuscript composed around the 13th or 14th century, relating events of Christian Martyrs during the reign of the emperor Diocletian. These events either appears as a leaf from a synaxarium or an older work of hagiography that appears to have traveled through the Sassanian Empire before arriving in Georgia prior to the 6th century. Its manuscript source is unknown as it has no known parallels in the lives of medieval saints. The martyrs themselves are said to have been residing in Roman Arabia, near the mercantile city of Petra at the end of the 3rd century. This work therefore provides a rare insight into the little known world of early Arabic Christianity, and make some curious allusion to a place called 'Bacca', otherwise only noted in the Quran.
Laws of the Himyarites
Book 9·Jun 2024
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The Law of the Himyarites, also known by its Greek title 'Nomoi ton Homeriton' (Νόμοι των Όμηριτών), or by its Latin 'Leges Homeritarum' is a composite text of hagiography and some authentic pre-Islamic South Arabian jurisprudence. Differentiating pious legend from historical Himyarite law remains a point of academic debate. The laws enclosed are not arranged thematically, but may be categorized under seven different themes: (1) Marriage law; (2) the institution of slavery; (3) right of employment; (4) Social deviance; (5) cruelty against animals; (6) Proprietorial law; (7) and regulation of State officeholders. Within the last class are laws concerning sorcery, poisoning, perjury, theft, extrajudicial punishments, infringing ecclesiastical asylum, workhouses for criminals and prohibitions on begging.

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Laws of the Himyarites
Gregentios of Taphar
Book 9•History
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