Quotes:Abu'l-Faraj

Zirkoff, Boris

Abu’l-Faraj (or Bar-Hebraeus). A mapharian or catholicus of the Jacobite (Monophysite) Church who lived between 1226 and 1286, and wrote in Syriac and Arabic numerous treatises on theology, philosophy, science and history. He was the son of a physician of Jewish descent and was born at Malatiah on the upper Euphrates. He became in 1246 Jacobite bishop of Gubas, and in 1253 bishop of Aleppo. In 1264 he was promoted by the patriarch Ignatius III to be maphrian, the next rank below that of patriarch. His great historical work is the Syriac Chronicle, the first part of which is a history of secular events. Bar-Hebraeus made a compendium of it in Arabic under the title of al-Mukhtasar fi'd-Duwal (*Compendius History of the Dynasties). The second and third parts of his great work deal with the history of the Church.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 495