5/6 MONGOLS, TURKS AND KURDS – DR. AZIZ ATIYA
In spite of elements of decline in so many aspects of Syrian life and literature, the Jacobite church must have continued to thrive under Arab rule sufficiently for its community to produce men like Michael the Syrian, Dionysius bar Salibi, and Bar Hebrews. Indeed it is quite conceivable that the Jacobite church enjoyed one of its best periods of prosperity under Muslim rule towards the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries. On the authority of Bar Hebraeus,1 the august historian of that age, the Jacobite patriarchs then ruled over twenty metropolitans and about a...
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