Contextul istoric al Vieții lui Rabban Iosif Busnaya de Ioan Bar Kaldun
The Historical Context of the Life of Rabban Iosif Busnaya by Ioan Bar Kaldun

Summary/Abstract: The text of the Life of Rabban Joseph Busnaya is an indispensable historical source for understanding the political, social and religious realities of the 9th-10th centuries in the northern part of Iraq, known as Jazira in Muslim historiography or, today, as the separatist region of Kurdistan. In John bar Kaldun's relatively long text, we find historical information on the last period of Abbasid rulers in Baghdad, the crisis triggered by the clashes between the Buid rulers in the capital and the Hamdanite tribes in the Mosul region, which gradually gained greater political and fiscal independence. The conflict between Emir Adud al-Dawla and Abu Taglib, the ruler of Mosul, was a critical moment in this period. The aftermath of this confrontation had a consistent impact on the life of religious minorities in the region, and is recorded in the source we study. At the same time, we are introduced to the specific ecclesiastical context of the Syro-Eastern Church, already isolated for more than five centuries from the Christians of the West (Byzantium and Europe), but with a strong tradition of its own, which gives it a unique specificity, charming in its richness and depth.

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