Dāniyāl al-Suryānī l-Mārdīnī; (= Daniel ibn al-Khaṭṭāb?)
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Daniel al-Mārdīnī Date of Birth: Possibly 1327 Place of Birth: In or near Mardin Date of Death: After 1382 Place of Death: Perhaps Mardin
Biography
The author of the Kitāb uṣūl al-dīn (‘The fundamentals of religion’) described below was a West-Syrian (‘Jacobite’) monk who, in the MSS of the work, is regularly identified as Dāniyāl (Daniel) ibn al-Khaṭṭāb. Early 20th-century scholarship identified two possibilities for saying more about …
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N. Swanson, Mark,
“Dāniyāl al-Suryānī l-Mārdīnī; (= Daniel ibn al-Khaṭṭāb?)”, in:
Christian-Muslim Relations 600 - 1500, General Editor David Thomas.
Consulted online on 24 January 2020 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-8054_cmri_COM_25693>