Un Syrien rêvant de Byzance: Paul Ibn az-Zaʻīm à Constantinople en 1652
A Syrian Dreaming of Byzantium: Paul Ibn al-Zaʿim in Constantinople in 1652
Author(s): Ioana FeodorovSubject(s): History, Modern Age, Theology and Religion, 17th Century, History of Religion
Published by: Herlo Verlag UG
Keywords: Constantinople; Paul of Aleppo; Patriarch Makarios III of Antioch; Byzantine monuments; Ottoman monuments; Church history; Christian Arabic literature; Arabic-speaking Christians; travel literature;
Summary/Abstract: Paul of Aleppo, an Archdeacon of the Church of Antioch, travelled to Constantinople during the autumn 1652 – winter 1653, accompanying his father, Patriarch Makarios III ibn az-Zaʻīm. I present in this paper the report and comments that Paul provides in his Arabic Travel Journal of his sojourn in the Imperial capital, the churches, monasteries, Ottoman mosques, and secular monuments that he visited, and stories that he heard while there. The accent of the research falls on Paul’s quest of the traces of Byzantium that he had read about and his endeavour to clarify, for himself and his Christian Arab readers back home in Syria, the ideal image that he held of the splendour of Byzantine culture and traditions.
Journal: Études byzantines et post-byzantines
- Issue Year: 2/2020
- Issue No: IX
- Page Range: 139-149
- Page Count: 11
- Language: French
