Name

Moses of Mardin

Original name

Main activity

Priest

Secondary activity

Teacher

Title

Bishop

Name variations

Moses of Sor (Ṣawro), موسى الصَّوري"

Education place

Education institution

Activity place

Rome

Activity institution

College of the Neophytes

Activity start date

1549

Activity end date

1592

Place of birth

Qaluq

Date of birth

Place of death

Rome

Date of death

1592

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/559HTU6W/tags/Moses%20of%20Mardin/collection

Descriptive card

He was a Syriac Orthodox priest and a legate of the Syrian-Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius ʻAbdallāh in the course of his first two missions in Rome and Europe (1549-1550, 1551-1556) to negotiate the unification of his Church to the Holy See. He was a very active scribe during those periods and cooperated with European orientalists as a language teacher (Syriac and Arabic) and cultural mediator. He had an important role in the edition of the Syriac New Testament in collaboration with Johan Albrecht Widmanstetter and Guillaume Postel (Vienna, 1555). During his last mission to Rome in 1577, he was not an official Patriarchal legate, and his figure was discredited by the newly dismissed Patriarch Ignatius Niʻmatallāh who arrived in Rome with him. From 1581 to 1585 he was mentioned among the teachers of the college of the Neophytes. He collaborated with the Bishop of Sidon Leonardo Abel on translating Qur'anic Christological passages and compiled 2 lexicons of Qur'an terms and phrases in Garšūnī.

Entry author

Sara Fani