Late Antique Historiography

Second book on the councils

Title(s):
  • Second book on the councils
  • كتاب الثاني
    (kitāb al-thānī‘, Second book)
Author:
Period covered:
325-527
Language:
Arabic
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Council synopsis
  • Exegesis
  • Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
In Severus’ Second book on the councils, the apologetical and doctrinal parts are much more developed than in the Book of the councils. The treatise contains, however, an extensive overview of the events related to the Council of Nicaea and of the successive developments in the history of the church up to the reign of Justin I.
Edition - Translation:
  • L. Leroy (1911) L'Histoire des Conciles de Sévère Ibn-al-Moqaffa (Patrologia Orientalis, 6.4). Paris: 465-600.
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Bibliography:
  • M.N. Swanson (2010) 'Sāwīrus ibn al-Muqaffa‘'. In: Christian-Muslim relations: A bibliographical history. Volume Two: 900-1050, ed. D. Thomas - A. Mallett (The history of Christian-Muslim relations, 14). Leiden - Boston: 491-509.