Arab Neo-Martyrs of the Ottoman Era

[Armanios, Febe]

Would any list members know of sources discussing neo-martyrs from Arab lands during the Ottoman era (specifically the 16th to the 18th centuries)? I am familiar with the literature on Egypt and the Balkans, but not the Levant, Iraq, etc. Thank you.

 

Best,

Febe

 

 

Febe Armanios

Assistant Professor of History

Middlebury College

Middlebury, VT  05753

Tel: 802-443-5212

farm...@middlebury.edu

[Sasha Treiger]

Dear Febe,

 

Probably the best known Arab Orthodox martyr (from the 19th century) is St Joseph of Damascus (al-qiddis Yusuf al-Dimashqi), martyred during the riots of 1860.

 

See his brief Vita here:

http://www.balamand.edu.lb/theology/SaintJosephDamascus.htm

 

Check also Archimandrite Tuma Bitar, al-Qiddisun al-mansiyun fi al-Turath al-Antaki, Beirut: Manshurat al-Nur, 1995.

 

See a brief review of the book here:

http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.com/2009/07/forgotten-saints-in-antiochian-heritage.html

 

Yours

Sasha

 

 

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[Marcel Pirard]

Attached an Antiochian dossier -in French- about St. Joseph of Damascus.

All the best,

 

Marcel Pirard

Orientalist Institute

Louvain Belgium

[Sergey Minov]

Dear Febe,

There is a number of Armenian neo-martyrs from this period. I know
about them from the two Russian collections of translations of their
lives -

Тер-Давтян, К.С., Армянские жития и мученичества V-XVII вв. (Памятники
древнеармянской литературы; Ереван: Наири, 1994).
------ , Новые армянские мученики (1155-1843) (Памятники древнеармянской
литературы; Ереван: Наири, 1998).

best
Sergey

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[Sergey Minov]

See also Macomber, W.F., “A Funeral Madraša on the Assassination of
Mar Hnanišo, Guardian of the Chaldean Patriarchal Throne, by Deacon
Jander of Mosul,” in: F. Graffin (ed.), Mémorial Mgr Gabriel Khouri-
Sarkis (1898–1968), fondateur et directeur de L’Orient Syrien, 1956–
1967 (Louvain: Imprimerie orientaliste, 1969), 263-273.

Sergey

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