Publications

Monographs

1. From High-Priest to Patriarch: History and Authority in the Ecclesiastical History of Bar ‘Ebroyo (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 688; Subsidia, 141), Peeters, Leuven, 2020, xx+158 pp. Reviews: L. Weitz in Church History, 90.3, 2021, pp. 675-7; J.P. Monferrer-Sala in Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 18, 2021, pp. 305-7.
2. Bar ‘Ebroyo, Ecclesiastical History: critical edition and translation (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 692; Scriptores Syri, 267), Peeters, Leuven, forthcoming, xl+658 pp.

Edited volumes

1. and M. Conterno, Intercultural Exchange in Late Antique Historiography (Bibliothèque de Byzantion, 23; Orientalia Christiana Lovanensia, 288), Peeters, Leuven, 2020, xxi+168 pp. Reviews: F. Jullien in Abstracta Iranica, 42-43, 2021; F.K Haarer in Histos, 16, 2022, xxxvi–xli.

Articles and book chapters

1. ‘Dhimmi bishops in a Muslim polity: endurance and adaptation of Syriac episcopal leadership in the Omayyad and Early Abbasid period (7th-9th c.)’, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 83.2 (forthcoming October 2024)
2. ‘La storiografia cristiana in lingua siriaca (IV-XIII sec.)’, in G. Rinaldi (ed.), La storiografia ecclesiastica. Nell'antichità tra oriente e occidente. Nell'età moderna tra Riforma e Controriforma, Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum, forthcoming.
3. ‘Diplomats and Betrayers: Christian Negotiators and the confessional Rewriting of the Surrender during the Arab Conquest’, Al- Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 36:1 (forthcoming April 2024).
4. and P. Van Nuffelen, ‘A lost Source for Syriac Christianity in the Umayyad era: the Ecclesiastical History of Daniel son of Moses of Ṭur ʿAbdin (8th c.)’, Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique, 118.3-4, 2023.
5. and P. Van Nuffelen, ‘The Julian Romance completed: A full text and a new date’, Journal of Late Antiquity, 16.2, 2023, pp. 324-377.
6. ‘Finding common Ground: Syriac Orthodox monastic Culture in the interconfessional Context of Byzantine Melitene (10th-11th c.), in D. Oltean (ed.) Foreign Monks in Byzantium: Migration Trends and Integration Policies in Religious Context (Bibliothèque de Byzantion, Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta) forthcoming.
7. ‘Grigorios Abu al-Farağ Bar ‘Ebroyo’, in A. Mallet (ed) Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography (Outremer. Studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 10), Brepols, Turnhout, 2021, pp. 257-280.
8. ‘Centralism and Local Tradition: A Reappraisal of the Sources on the Metropolis of Tagrit and Mor Matay’, Le Muséon: Revue d'Études Orientales, 132.3-4, 2019, pp. 399-413.
9. ‘The Textual Tradition of Bar ‘Ebroyo’s Chronicle: A Preliminary Study’, Le Muséon: Revue d'Études Orientales, 131.1-2, 2018, pp. 73-100.
10. ‘A ‘Woven-Texture’ Narration: On the Compilation Method of the Syriac Renaissance Chronicles’, Sacris Erudiri: Journal of Late Antique and Medieval Christianity 56, 2017, pp. 445-463.
11. ‘Alcuni poemi di Barhebraeus nella redazione del ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Orientale 298’, Egitto e Vicino Oriente 36, 2013, pp. 73-95.

Reviews

1. S.J. Shoemaker, A Prophet has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes, A Sourcebook. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021, in Le Muséon: Revue d'Études Orientales, forthcoming.
2. M. Metselaar, Defining Christ: The Church of the East and Nascent Islam. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2019, in Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies, 25. 1-2, 2022, pp. 300-4.

In preparation

1. and P. Van Nuffelen, Dionysius of Tel-Maḥre, Early Syriac Historiography, and its Byzantine and Arab Context (582-842), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (proposal favourably reviewed).
2. La réception de l'Histoire ecclésiastique d'Eusèbe dans les florilèges syriaques de la période islamique (VIIIe-Xe siècles)
3. ‘Universal History in the Syriac Tradition (700-1700)’, in The Oxford Handbook of Universal History Writing (200 BCE – 1700 CE)