Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

History

Author:

Aaron

Period covered:

At least 884/885

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

Elias of Nisibis quotes this otherwise unknown Aaron, just once, under the year 273 of the Hegira/1197 of the Greeks (namely 884/885), with regard to the death of the Byzantine Emperor Basil I (811-886). The name is followed by an illegible epithet, which according to Brooks starts with 'bar' ('son of').

The passage appears in the section of the chronicle where Elias uses mostly Arabic sources, but according to Baethgen (1884: 3), the form of the name suggests that he was a Syriac author.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Elias of Nisibis, Chronicle [Brooks 1910 (ed.): 188]

Users:

Elias of Nisibis

Sources:

Bibliography:

F. Baethgen (1884) Fragmente syrischer und arabischer Historiker (Abhandlungen für die Kunde der Morgenlandes, 8.3). Leipzig.
E.W. Brooks (1910) (tr.) Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 62: Scriptores Syri, 23). Paris - Leipzig.
E.W. Brooks (1910) (ed.) Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 62: Scriptores Syri, 21). Paris - Leipzig.
L.I. Conrad (1990) ‘Syriac Perspectives on Bilād al-Shām during the Abbasid Period’. In: Bilād al-Shām during the Abbasīd period (132 A.H./750 A.D. – 451 A.H./1059 A.D.): Proceedings of the fifth international conference on the history of Bilād al-Shām, ed. M. Adnan al-Bakhit – R. Schick. Amman: 1-44.