ALYSIS OF SYRIAN ORTHODOX ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE IN THE TUR ABDIN FOR CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION / Elif Keser Kayaalp
ANALYSIS OF SYRIAN ORTHODOX ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE IN THE TUR ABDIN FOR CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION Elif Keser Kayaalp Turkish Cultural Foundation Fellow Ph.D. in Archaeology, University of Oxford (Exeter College), UK (2009) Current Position: Senior Fellow at Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Turkey The Tur Abdin is a limestone plateau to the east of Mardin in south-eastern Turkey. Its landscape is dotted with numerous villages and monasteries dating to various time periods. According to some Syriac texts, church and monastery building activity started...
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Identity and Christian-Muslim Interaction: Medieval Art of the Syrian Orthodox from the Mosul Area, by Bas Snelders. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta). Peeters, dist, by David Brown Book Company, 2010. 591 p. ISBN 9789042923867 (cl.), $124.00. It is possible to negate the existence of an entire culture simply by omission. This has been the case with an ethnic group known as the Syrian Orthodox (referred to in English as the Syriac Orthodox), who played a vital role in the early development and dissemination of Christianity. The Syriac Orthodox rejected the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and...
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