Syriac Heritage Resources

Resources for Syriac Heritage

This is a list of books and other resources used in creating this website and for future reading about the Syriac Heritage in addition to many articles and research work. The list will be updated frequently. Resources about specific aspects of the Syriac heritage are also provided in other sections of this website. These resources are available in many libraries and bookstores and a link will be added if they are available free online

General Sources

• Brook, Sebastian P. and Taylor, David (2001), The Hidden Pearl; The Ancient Aramaic Heritage. Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Brook, Sebastian P. (2011), A Brief Outline of Syriac Literature. Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Chatonnet, Francoise Briquel and Debie, Muriel (2023), The Syriac World, Haines, Jeffrey (Tr.). Yale University Press, New Haven & London

• Kawrerau, Peter (2022), The Syriac Orthodox Church at the time of the Syriac renaissance: in concept and reality. Gorgias Press, NJ.

• King, Daniel (ed.) (2018), The Syriac world. Routledge, London and New York

• Palmer, Andrew (1990), Monk and Mason on the Tigris Frontier; The Early History of Tur 'Abdin. Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom.

• Patriarch Michael Rabo (2014), The Syriac Chronicle of Michael Rabo (the Great). A Universal History from the Creation, Matti Moosa (tr.). Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Patriarch Ignatius Aphram I Barsoum (2003), The Scattered Pearls, A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, Matti Moosa (tr.). Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Patriarch Ignatius Aphram I Barsoum (2008), The History of Tur Abdin, Matti Moosa (tr.). Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Patriarch Ignatius Aphram I Barsoum (2009), History of Syriac Dioceses, Matti Moosa (tr.). Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Patriarch Ignatius Aphram I Barsoum (2009), The Collected Historical Essays of Aphram I Barsoum, Matti Moosa (tr.), Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Patriarch Ignatius Aphram I Barsoum (2009), History of the Za'faraan Monastery, Matti Moosa (tr.). Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Patriarch Ignatius Ya'koub III (2008), History of the Monastery of Saint Matthew in Mosul , Matti Moosa (tr.). Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Patriarch Ignatius Ya'coub III (2009), History of the Syrian Church of India, Matti Moosa (tr.). Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Saint-Laurent, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon (2015), Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches, University of California Press, CA.

• Teule, Herman and Tauwinkl, Carmen Fotescu, (ed.) (2010), The Syriac Renaissance. Peeters.

• Wilmshurst, David (Tr.) (2016), Bar Hebraeus; The Ecclesiastical Chronicle. Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Young, Robin Darling and Butts, Aaron Michael (2021), Syriac Christian Culture: Beginnings to Renaissance. The Catholic University of America Press, Washington D.C.

Sayfo Sources

• de Courtois, Sébastien (2013), The forgotten genocide : eastern Christians, the last Arameans, Vincent Aurora (tr.). Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Gaunt, David (2006), Massacres, Resistance, Protectors; Muslim–Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Gorgias Press, NJ.

• Gaunt, David, Atto, Naurus, Berthoman, Soner O., (ed.) (2018), Let Them Not Return: Sayfo - The Genocide Against the Assyrian, Syriac, and Chaldean Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Berghahn Books.

• Henno, Sleman (2015), The Persecution and the Extermination In Tur Abdin 1915, Jonk, Jan (tr.)

• Qarabashi, Abdulmassih Nea'aman (2005), The Shed Blood; The Syriac Massacres in Mesopotamia. Lebanon

• Shabo, Talay & Barthoma, Soner O (2015), Sayfo 1915. An Anthology of Essays on the Genocide of Assyrians/Arameans during the First World War. Gorgias Press, NJ.