31 août 2022
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Max Weber Stiftung, « Narrating religious change: Christianity in Ottoman Mardin and the Life of Eliya the Priest », Mish ma32ool, ID : 10.58079/sik1
Title page of the Life of Eliya the Priest and what befell him (USJ 30 (18th c.?), ff. 1v-2r). Rosemary Maxton In around 1700 CE, in the town of Mardin (current-day southeast Turkey), a priest decided to abandon his Syriac Orthodox faith and embrace Catholicism.[1] Though little else can be gathered about this priest, a remarkably detailed autobiographical account in Arabic of his religious conversion has survived. Like its author, however, the account appears to have largely escaped ...