announcement of a recent book: Brani scelti della Chiesa dell'Oriente by Gianmaria Gianazza
Gianmaria Gianazza
Brani scelti della Chiesa dell’Oriente (XI-XIV secolo) Introduzione e traduzione di Gianmaria Gianazza (Udine: Edizioni Segno, 2017), 161 p.
Keywords: XI-XIV CE, faith, prayer, fast, Sunday, Arab Christians, primary sources [Arabic] - Italian translation.
Selected Texts from the Church of the East: Introduction, Italian translation by Gianmaria Gianazza: the book comprises five texts, two from Kitāb al-miǧdal li-l-istibṣār wa-l-ǧadal (XI c.), the first on faith and the second on prayer (from Vat. Ar. 108, f. 14r-28r, 135r-150v & Par. Ar.190, f. 22v-30v, 170v-188r); the third one is on prayer by Elias of Nisibis (Vat. Syr. 608, f. 40r-47v & Beirut Oriental Library 563, pp. 72-86); the fourth on fast (anonymous, Vat. Syr. 608, f. 47-59 & Beirut Oriental Library 563, pp. 84-105); the fifth on Sunday comprises three small texts (the first one from Kitāb al-miǧdal li-l-istibṣār wa-l-ǧadal (XI c.) (Vat. Ar. 109, f. 294v-298r & Par. Ar.190, f. 496r-499r), the second is from Kitāb uṣul al-dīn li-ʿAbdīšūʿ al-naṣībīnī (Beirut Oriental Library 936, f. 115v-120v), the third one is from Kitāb farāʾid al-fawāʾid fī uṣūl al-dīn wa-l-ʿaqāʾid li-ʿAbdīšūʿ al-naṣībīnī (Par. Ar. 206, f. 57r-60r & Beirut Oriental Library 562, f. 66v-67r).
NB. All the texts have been edited in Arabic:
* Maqāl fi al-īmān, naṣṣ min kitāb al-Miǧdal min kanīsat al-mašriq, edited by Gianmaria Gianazza, Silsilah Bāb al-īmān, Al-Turāṯ al-ʿarabī al-masīḥī 1, Manšūrāt Maktaba Yasūʿ al-Malik, Jerusalem 2014, 48 p.
* Maqāl fī al-ṣalāt, naṣṣ min kitāb al-Miǧdal min kanīsat al-mašriq (bidāyat al-qarn al-ḥadī ʿašar), edited by Gianmaria Gianazza, Silsilah Bāb al-Īmān, Al-Turāṯ al-ʿarabī al-masīḥī 10, Manšūrāt Maktaba Yasūʿ al-Malik, Jerusalem 2017, 85 p. (under press).
* Al-Maqālah fī al-ṣalāt wa-manāfiʿihā li-Īlīyā al-Naṣībīnī († 1046), edited by Gianmaria Gianazza, Silsilah Bāb al-īmān, Al-Turāṯ al-ʿarabī al-masīḥī 3, Manšūrāt Maktaba Yasūʿ al-Malik, Jerusalem 2014, 48 p.
* Al-risālah fī šarḥ ṣiyām al-naṣārā li-kātib maǧhūl min kanīsat al-mašriq, edited by Gianmaria Gianazza, Silsilah Bāb al-īmān, Al-Turāṯ al-ʿarabī al-masīḥī 6, Manšūrāt Maktaba Yasūʿ al-Malik, Jerusalem 2015, 56 p.
* Fī taqdīs yawm al-aḥad hamsah nuṣūṣ min kanīsat al-mašriq (min al-qarnayn 11 wa 14), edited by Gianmaria Gianazza, Silsilah Bāb al-īmān, Al-Turāṯ al-ʿarabī al-masīḥī, Manšūrāt Maktaba Yasūʿ al-Malik, Jerusalem 2016, 63 p.