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Title(s):
History
ܡܟܬܒܢܘܬܐ
(mktabānūtā, Account)ܡܟܬܒܢܘܬܐ ܕܥܠ ܙܒܢܐ
(mktabānūtā d-‘al zabnā, Account of times (chronicle))
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
- Chronicle (narrative chronicle)
- Secular history (general)
- Ecclesiastical history
Edition - Translation:
- P. Van Nuffelen, M. Mazzola, M. Conterno, A. Hilkens (Forthcoming) Dionysius of Tell Mahre: Fragments, translation and commentary.
Bibliography:
- R. Abramowski (1940) Dionysius von Tellmahre, jakobitischer Patriarch von 818-845: Zur Geschichte der Kirche unter dem Islam (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 25.2). Leipzig.
- F. Altheim (1973) 'Ein unbeachtetes Bruchstuck Dionysios von Tellmahre'. In: Christentum am Roten Meer. Volume Two, ed. F. Altheim. Berlin: 335-46.
- S.W. Anthony (2010) 'The Syriac account of Dionysius of Tell Maḥre concerning the assassination of 'Umar b. Al-Khaṭṭāb'. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 62.2: 209-224.
- L.I. Conrad (1992) 'The conquest of Arwād: A source-critical study in the historiography of early medieval Near East'. In: The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East. Volume One: Problems in the literary source material, ed. A. C. Cameron - L. I. Conrad (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 1). Princeton: 317-401.
- M. Conterno (2014) La 'descrizione dei tempi' all'alba dell'espansione islamica: Un'indagine sulla storiografia greca, siriaca e araba fra VII e VIII secolo (Millennium studies, 47). Berlin - New York.
- M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol: 568-569.
- A. Harrak (2015) ‘Dionysius of Tell-Maḥrē: Patriarch, diplomat, and inquisitive chronicler’. In: Syriac encounters: Papers from the sixth North American Syriac Symposium, Duke University, 26-29 June 2011, ed. M.E Doerfler - E. Fiano - K.R. Smith (Eastern Christian studies, 20). Leuven.
- A. Hilkens (2018) The anonymous Syriac Chronicle of 1234 and its sources (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 272). Leuven: 267-280.
- R. Hoyland (1997) Seeing Islam as others saw it: A survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian writings on early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and early Islam, 13). Princeton: 409-410, 416-419.
- R. Hoyland (2011) Theophilus of Edessa's Chronicle and the circulation of historical knowledge in Late Antiquity and early Islam (Translated texts for historians, 57). Liverpool.
- A. Palmer (1993) The seventh century in the West-Syrian chronicles, including two seventh-century Syriac apocalyptic texts (Translated texts for historians, 15). Liverpool.
- E. Riad (1988) Studies in the Syriac preface (Studia Semitica Upsaliensia, 11). Uppsala.
- H. Teule (2009) 'Dionysius of Tell-Maḥrē'. In: Christian-Muslim relations: A bibliographical history. Volume One: 600-900, ed. D. Thomas - B. Roggema (The history of Christian-Muslim relations, 11). Leiden - Boston: 622-626.
- W. Witakowski (2011). 'Dionysios of Tel Maḥre'. In: Gorgias encyclopedic dictionary of the Syriac heritage, ed. S.P. Brock - A.M. Butts - G.A. Kiraz - L. Van Rompay. Piscataway (NJ): 127-128.