Some Aspects of Turco-Mongol Christianity in the Light of Literary and Epigraphic Syriac Sources§ / Pier Giorgio Borbone, Ph.D. University of Pisa *
The presence of Christians in Bactria, in present-day Northern Afghanistan, is documented already in the third century by one of the most ancient works in Syriac literature, the Book of the Laws of the Countries.1 Further expansion of Syriac Christianity in Central Asia and China2 was largely due to the initiative of the Church of the East – that is, the Christian Church of the territories once comprised in the Parthian and Sassanian empire and, later, in the Arab-Muslim one, rather inaccurately called “Nestorian.”3 Our purpose in the present paper is to bring to light some of the...
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