by Mark Dickens

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Suryoyo is a Syriac word meaning 1) the Syriac language or 2) a speaker of Syriac and hence is a term that many Syriac Christians would use to describe themselves. These pages are devoted to Syriac Christianity in general, including the history, language, literature and overall culture of Syriac Christians.

This page contains links to a paper on the Church of the East which I have written, as well as some other things I have put together related to Syriac Christianity, as well as a list of relevant websites. 

If you know of any good websites on Syriac Christianity that I have missed or if any of the links below have changed or are now obsolete, please drop me a line and let me know. Thanks.

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Papers I have written:

• The Church of the East (PDF)
• The Church of the East (HTML)
• Nestorian Christianity in Central Asia (PDF)
  

Lists of Rulers:

• Patriarchs of the Church of the East (PDF)
• Patriarchs of the Church of the East (HTML)
  
• Bishops of Adiabene (PDF)
• Bishops of Adiabene (HTML)
  
• Kings of Edessa (PDF)
• Kings of Edessa (HTML)
  
• Sassanid Shahs of Persia (PDF)
• Sassanid Shahs of Persia (HTML)
  
• Muslim Caliphs (PDF)
• Muslim Caliphs (HTML)
  
• Mongol Khans (PDF)
• Mongol Khans (HTML)
  

Other things I have put together:

• Church of the East Timeline (PDF)
• Church of the East Timeline (HTML)
  
• Nestorian Theology (PDF)
• Nestorian Theology (HTML)
  
• Church of the East Liturgy (PDF)
• Church of the East Liturgy (HTML)
  
• Location of Nestorian Bishops & Metropolitans (PDF)
• Location of Nestorian Bishops & Metropolitans (HTML)
  
• Persecution under the Sassanids (PDF)
• Persecution under the Sassanids (HTML)
  
• Bibliography: Syriac Christianity in Central Asia (HTML)
  

Syriac Christianity on the Web:

• Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East
• Is the Theology of the Church of the East Nestorian?
• A short outline of the history of The Holy Apostolic-Catholic Church of the East
• By Foot to China
• The Assyrian Church
• Nestorian Church (Church Rodent)
• NESTORIANISM (Funk & Wagnells)
• NESTORIAN CHURCH (Funk & Wagnells)
• Nestorian Christianity (A MELVYL Bibliography)
• Nestorian Church (Infoplease)
• Catholic Encyclopedia: CATHOLICOS
• Eastern Church Web Sites
• CIN - Nestorius and the Chaldeaeans
• Chaldeans as Christians

The Nestorian Controversy

• EARLY HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: 170 to 590 CE
• Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VII
• Early Church Documents: COUNCILS OF THE CHURCH (Ecole)
• CH Issue 54 The 7 Ecumenical Councils
• The Lynching of Nestorius
• Saint Cyril I
• Cyril of Alexandria (Ecole)
• Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, Theologian
• Catholic Encyclopedia: ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA
• Encyclical of Pope Pius XII ON ST. CYRIL, PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA
• THE PAINFUL COUNCIL
• LETTER XCIII. TO THE SYNOD OF CHALCEDON
• A History of Christianity in Egypt - The Council of Chalcedon
• EASTERN CHRISTIANITY ON THE EVE OF ISLAM
• Eastern Orthodoxy, Icons, and Christology
• REASONS FOR CENTURIES-OLD IMPASSE
• The Syrian Orthodox Church on Nestorius

Famous Individuals in Nestorian History

• Diodore of Tarsus (Ecole)
• Theodore of Mopsuestia (Ecole)
• Chapter 16 - Theodore of Mopsuestia and the Nestorians
• JUSTINIAN: Dialogue with Paul of Nisibis
• Catholic Encyclopedia: ISAAC OF NINEVEH
• Cosmas Indicopleustes (Ecole)
• Bar Suma's Nestorian Pilgrimage (Thirteenth Century)

• The Sassanid Empire: 226-651
• The Iranian: News & Views
• History Of The Christians In Iran - A book by Zarin Behravesh Pakizegi

• Welcome to the Home Page of the Mar Thoma Church
• The history of Syro-Malabar Church
• MALANKARA (Indian) ORTHODOX CHURCH (Kerala, India) - Christian Religion
• The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
• Catholic Encyclopedia: ST. THOMAS CHRISTIANS
• St. Thomas Christians
• WERE THE COLONISTS SYRIAN OR PERSIAN
• Indian Church History Classics (ICHC) - Volume 1
• LITTLE MOUNT
• WELCOME TO INDIAN CHRISTIANITY

• CHRISTIANS (in the Arab world)
• ArabNet -- Bahrain, History, Pre-Islam
• The Eastern Province (Saudia Arabia)
• Iraqi Christians
• Letter to the Editor

• How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs
• Arab Golden age and education
• History of Islamic Origins of Western Education by Mehdi Nakosteen

The Nestorians in Central Asia

• The Great Steppe Empires
• Nestorian grave stone

The Nestorians in China & The Far East

• Catholic Encyclopedia: THE CHURCH IN CHINA
• China_Hist_I
• China: The Silk Road
• The Tang Dynasty 618-907
• CH Issue 52 Medieval Missionaries to China
• Xi'an (Infoplease)
• Xi'an Travel Highlights
• The Forest of Steles In Xi'an
• East Asian History Sourcebook: Ch'ing-Tsing: Nestorian Tablet
• Nestorian Stone
• Copy of Nestorian Stone
• Nestorian Church
• Christian mural
• CHRISTIANITY ARRIVED IN JAPAN CENTURIES BEFORE SAINT XAVIER, SCHOLARS SAY
• 46 years experiencing Japan's spiritual change
• Early Christianity in Malaysia

The Nestorians Among the Mongols

• Female Hero: Sorghaghtani Beki (Women in World History Curriculum)
• DOKUZ (DOQUZ) K¨AÚTUÚN
• Catholic Encyclopedia: JOHN OF MONTECORVINO

Prester John

• First Written Account of Prester John
• Medieval Sourcebook: Otto of Freising: Legend of Prester John
• Prester John - Geography - 08/10/98
• Prester John: A MELVYL Bibliography
• Medieval Sourcebook: Marco Polo: On the Tartars

The Syriac Language, Script & Fonts

• Learn Syriac
• Learn Assyrian (Aramaic / Neo-Aramaic) OnLine
• Northwest Semitic
• SyrCom Home
• LaserSyriac fonts from Linguist's Software
• MacSemitic Coptic fonts from Linguist's Software
• Syriac Page
• ATZL/Laser Fonts
• MT WorldType Syriac
• Syriac Type Styles
• Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies
• Syriac Orthodox Resources

Nestorian Documents

• The Nicene Creed in Syriac
• Catholic Encyclopedia: LITURGY OF ADDEUS AND MARIS
• Peshitta
• Bible Study: Which Bible? Whose Canon?
• Catholic Encyclopedia: SYRIAC HYMNODY
• Khaboris Codex: Ancient Aramaic NT Manuscript
• About the Khaboris Manuscript
• Parchment of the Sarmoung Brotherhood
• The Book of the Cave of Treasures
• The Book of the Bee

Modern Day Assyrians & Chaldeans

• History of the Chaldean church
• A Narrative History of Assyrians
• Atour - The State of Assyria
• A virtual Assyria: Christians from the Middle East
• The Turkish Crime of our Century - The Christians
• Assyrians Frequently Asked Questions
• C.A.S.A. at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

• http://www.touregypt.net/hayyubid.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayyubid_dynasty
• http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/A/Ayyubid-dynasty.htm

• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia%20Minor/Persia/buwayhid_emirate.html

• http://www.bartleby.com/67/app2.html
• http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/l/list-of-byzantine-emperors.html
• http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/Byzantine_Emperors
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Emperors

• http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html
• http://www.chinapage.com/emperor.html
• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chem/hd_chem.htm
• http://www.mrdowling.com/613chinesehistory.html
• http://wwwtc.nhmccd.edu/people/crf01/history/china.html

• http://crusades.boisestate.edu/contents.html
• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1k.html
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543c.htm

• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia/Central_Asia/ghaznavid_emirate.html

• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia/Central_Asia/ghurid_sultanate.html

• http://www.allempires.com/empires/khwarezm/khwarezm1.htm
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia%20Minor/Persia/khwarazim_shahdom.html

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/latinkings.html
• http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/County-of-Edessa
• http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Principality-of-Antioch
• http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Kingdom-of-Jerusalem
• http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/County-of-Tripoli
• http://www.ordotempli.org/chronology_of_the_kings_of_jerusalem.htm

• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia/Central_Asia/mongol_empire.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Europe/Russia/golden_horde.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Europe/Russia/white_horde.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia/China/yuan_dynasty.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia/Central_Asia/chaghatai_khanate.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia%20Minor/Persia/ilkhan_sultanate.html
• http://www.friesian.com/mongol.htm

• http://www.allaboutturkey.com/halife.htm
• http://www.bartleby.com/67/app3.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/North%20Africa/Islamic_Caliphates/first_caliphs.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/North%20Africa/Islamic_Caliphates/umayyad_caliphate1.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/North%20Africa/Islamic_Caliphates/abbasid_caliphate.html
• http://i-cias.com/e.o/caliph.htm
• http://www.tulane.edu/~august/H303/chronologies/caliphs.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummayad
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ottoman_Sultans

• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia%20Minor/Persia/parthian_empire.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia%20Minor/Persia/sassanid_empire.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia%20Minor/Persia/tahirid_emirate.html
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia%20Minor/Persia/saffarid_emirate.html
• http://www.kessler-web.co.uk/History/KingListsMiddEast/EasternPersia.htm

• http://www.bartleby.com/67/app4.html
• http://www.popechart.com/Popelist.htm

• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia/Central_Asia/qara-khitai_empire.html

• http://www.bartleby.com/67/app1.html
• http://myron.sjsu.edu/romeweb/EMPCONT/EMPCONT.HTM
• http://www.roman-emperors.org/impindex.htm

• http://www.allempires.com/empires/samanid/samanid1.htm
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia%20Minor/Persia/samanid_emirate.html

• http://www.allempires.com/empires/seljuk/seljuk1.htm
• http://family-of-man.com/CatalogEnglish/Asia%20Minor/Persia/seljuq_empire.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seljuk_Turks
• http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/S/Seljuk-Turks.htm

• http://www.bartleby.com/67/
• http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• http://family-of-man.com/
• http://www.infoplease.com/
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/