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    Abdul Mesin,Sheikh,166-71

    Abed(taxi driver),266-70

    Abgar,King,77

    abi-Khalil,Père Abbé Marcel,230-1

    Abraham,74-5

    Abraham,Abba,287

    Abraham,Abouna,95

    Abu Nidal,267-8

    Abu Zaid,Dr Nasr,427-9

    Abu-Zeid,344,346-51

    Abukir,387

    Acre,358

    Acts of Paul and Thecla,The,399

    Adamnan,Abbot,110

    Adolas,15

    Aeschylus,399

    Aflaq,Michel,153,214

    Agabios,Amba,444

    Agathonicos,Abba,295

    Aghtamar island,84

    A’id,Sheikh,312

    Alawites,153,155

    Alcuin,418

    Aleppo,146-60,171-7;Armenian population,150-3,287;Baron Hotel,133-5,146,177,196,454;Christian population,153-4;St George church,174,339-40

    Alexander the Great,52,380-3

    Alexandria,375-94;Christian population,385-9,411;Church of St John,390;Élite Café,379,392;fall to Sassanian Persians(614),388,453;Graeco-Roman Museum,386,387,391;Grand Corniche,375,379;Greek Club,392-2;Greek population,259,379-82,392-4;Hotel Cecil,376;Hotel Metropole,375;Jewish population,259,377-9;library,388,392,399;Moschos’s stay,11,16,183,387-91,419,453;Mound of Shards,383;Pastroudis,377;occult history,222-3;Pharos lighthouse,383;Serapium,383,388,389

    Alexandros,Fr.,355-7

    Allon,Yigal,364

    Alouf,Monsieur,164-70

    Amal,195

    Ambrose,St,176

    Ammianus Marcellinus,389

    Amr,General,429

    Anastasius,Emperor,100

    Anatolia,27,51,80,316-17

    Anderson,Terry,218

    Ankara,28,50,51

    Anne,Princess,258

    Anthemius of Tralles,27

    Antinoe,437

    Antioch(Antakya),53-7,58-61;Buyuk Antakya Oteli,53,63-4;Christian community,58-60;economic history,13,224;Kurdish conflict,52;liturgies,91,250;mosaics,233,235;Moschos’s visit,57-62,183;School of,57,106,181

    Antonius,George,214

    Antonius Martyr,223

    Antony,St,401-4,406-9,417-18,420-2

    Apamea,181,183

    Apollonius of Tyana,66

    Aquinas,St Thomas,290

    Arafat,Yasser,229,274,275,282,318,354

    Arculph,110

    Arianism,299

    Ariel,Settlement,345,347,351-4,363

    Aristopoulos,Fr.,356-7,359

    Aristotle,136

    Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia(ASALA),86

    Armenians:in Aleppo,150-4,287;in Antioch,60;in Diyarbakir,80-2;in Istanbul,28,33-47;in Jerusalem,309-16;in Urfa,77-8;in Turkey,82-8

    Arnas,120

    Asad,Basil,138,202,272

    Asad,President Hafiz al:jokes about,138,154-6;portraits,138,148,200;regime,142,154-5,252,272,448

    Asad,Mrs,259

    Ascalon,182

    Asterius of Amasia,39

    Asyut:ancient,446;Copts,411-12,440-1;departure from,447;Gema’a al-Islamiyya,440-1;Islamic fundamentalists,422;permission to visit,395-6,435

    Ataturk,Mustafa Kemal,29,48,91,133,171

    Ateek,Canon Naim,358-9

    Ateret Cohanim,312,313

    Athanasius of Alexandria,St,107,355,402,408

    Athos,Mount,3-11,20-1;cells,304;monks,5-6,20,287,409;paintings,20,296

    Attargatis,75-6

    Augustine of Hippo,St,68,235,402

    Aurelia Attiaena,401

    Aurelius,Marcus,399

    Aurelius Nilus,401

    Auxanon,Abba,360

    Avars,13

    Avni,Gideon,332

    Al-Azhar University,426

    Ba’albek,261-6;architecture,94;Moschos’s visit,223,261;Temple of Jupiter,265;Temple of the Sun,262,263,266

    Baas camp,270-1

    Badger,Rev. George Percy,76-7

    Badr,Leila,223-5

    Bagawat,452

    Bangor Monastery,418

    Banu Ghassan,335

    Banu Taghlib,335

    Baradatus 157

    Bar’am,Kibbutz,369,372

    Bardaisan of Edessa,63,175

    al-Barra,178-82,184

    Barsauma,185,324

    Bartholomaios,Patriarch,32

    Basil,St,324

    al-Bassa,274

    Bawit,437

    Baybars,Sultan,311

    Bebek,47

    Bede,Venerable,110,408

    Bedros(in Midyat),118-23

    Behnasa,397-8,401

    Beiman,Amba,444-5

    Beirut,195-6,203-27,237-42;American University,211,219;bombing of,274;Downtown Project,223;economic history,13;Hotel Cavalier,206-7,266;Place des Martyrs,196,219-20

    Beit ed-Din,225,231-2,237

    Beit Jala,339-44

    Beit Shean,325,364

    Bekaa Valley,201-3,261-2

    Belisarius,Count,321

    Ben Gurion,David,364

    Benedict,St,12

    Benjamin,Amba,444

    Benvinisti,Meron,334

    Beth Zagba,183

    Bethlehem,318,321,339

    Bhutto,Zulfikar Ali,259

    Biddya,344-51,363

    Bishara,Fr.Mark,430-1

    Bkerke,247

    Book of Durrow,109,110

    Book of Protection,The,141-2

    Boulos Naaman,Fr.,199

    Brehier,Louis,290

    British Library,10

    Bsharre,236-7,241,245-55;Hotel Ch’baat,244-5,253

    Budak,Afrem,70,100,112-14,123-4

    Buddhism,66

    Buyuk Ada,44,45-7,187

    Caesarius,Court Physician,389

    Cairo,395,423-35;Church of al-Adra,430;Church of St Damiana,21;Church of St Michael and the Virgin,432;Copts,21,411,429-34;Ein Shams,431;Hotel Windsor,423

    Canaan,Taufiq,339

    Carpocratians,67

    Castellium Monastery,295

    Cathars,73

    Cavafy,Constantine P.,377,380-2

    Cecaumenus,12,180

    Celtic Christianity,106,109-10,303,418-20

    Chalcedon,26,322;Council of(451),91

    Chamoun,Dany,255

    Ch’ang-an,26

    Chariton,St,354,355,356

    Charlemagne,418

    Charles,Prince,258

    Chatila,massacre,195,198-9,211,215,236,266-7

    Ch’baat,Mr(hotelier),245,253-5

    Chouf,225-6,227,229-31,255

    Christie,Agatha,133

    Christina,Miss(in Alexandria),379-82,392

    Christopher the Roman,Brother,286

    Christophoros,Fr.,6-10,29-30

    Chryaorius of Tralles,223

    Chrysostom,St John:anti-idolatry campaign,262-3;asceticism,157;in Antioch,54,55,162;in Constantinople,29,36,55;influence,68,413

    CIA,423-4

    Cilicia,86

    Cilician Gates,56

    Clement of Alexandria,385

    Cleopatra,227,383,391

    Clinton,Bill,259

    Cochrane,Alfred,242

    Cochrane,Yvonne,Lady,238-42

    Codex Sinaiaticus,9

    Constantine,Emperor,16,56,180,320-1,328

    Constantine Ⅺ Palaeologus,Emperor,108

    Constantinople,see Istanbul

    Constantius,Emperor,176

    Coptic language,416

    Copts:discrimination against,20,411,424,425-6;in Alexandria,388;in Asyut,395;in Cairo,21,429-34;St Antony’s followers,404;St Antony’s Monastery,411-22;violence against,411-12,424,425,429-34,444-5

    Cosmas,Fr.,303

    Cosmas the Eunuch,Abba,354-5,360-1

    Cosmas the Lawyer,389

    Council of Chalcedon(451),91

    Council of Ephesus(431),447

    Council of Florence(1439),5,108

    Crusades:Cathars,73;capture of Jerusalem,310;Cilician history,86;cult of St George,342;Fourth,9;Islam’s relationship with Christianity,187-8,299;Maronites,197;theft of relics,301

    Ctesiphon,14,133

    Culdees,106,418

    Curzon,Hon. Robert,9,404,412

    Curzon,Lord,226

    Cyril,Patriarch,388-9

    Cyril of Scythopolis,290

    Cyrrhus,159,164-71,188,304,339

    Cyrus the Great,258

    Damascene,St John,37,39,290,298-302

    Damascus:Great Mosque,153;siege,17;Umayyad Mosque,282

    Damiana the Solitary,Amma,322

    Damour,196,229

    Daou,Samira,268-75,363

    Daou,Sarah,268

    Daou family,268-75,362-3,370

    Daphne,5

    Dara,136

    David(robber chief),437-8

    Dawood,Amba,441-43

    Dbayyeh camp,271,272-3

    Dead Sea,288

    Deir al Barsha,437

    Deir el-Qamar,230

    Deir el-Suriani,404

    Deir el-Zaferan,90-8,109,116,135

    Deir ul-Muharraq,411-12,442,443-4

    Deir Yassin,269,366

    Demus,Otto,391

    Dereici,96

    Diatessaron,108-11

    Dimitrios,Fr.,30-3,45,46,50

    Diocletian,Emperor,135,342,392,413,445

    Diodoros Ⅰ,Patriarch,318-19

    Diodoros of Sicily,382

    Dioscuros,Fr.,405-7,408-10,411,415,420

    Diyarbakir,79-81;bazaar,77;Christian population,150;Hotel Karavansaray,79-80;Kurdish conflict,47,49,447;Mar Gabriel,47,102

    Domenico,Fr.,62-3

    Dorotheus,56

    Douaihy family,252

    Drina,River,28

    Druze,217,221-6,225-32,253,255

    Durrell,Lawrence,376,380,384

    Echmiadzin,108

    Edessa,64-78,171-2,174-7

    Edinburgh,Duke of,258

    Edward Ⅲ,King of England,341

    Egeria,76

    Ehden,253-4,255-7

    Ein al-Zaytun,366

    Ein Fara,354-5,359

    Ein Helweh,massacre,236

    Ein Wardo,114,116,119-2,124-6

    Elchasaios,66

    Elchasiates,66

    Elizabeth Ⅱ,Queen,259

    Elon,Amos,333

    Emesa,185-6

    Ephrem Kerim,Fr.,149

    Ephrem of Edessa,St,176-7

    Eratosthenes,385

    Ethiopian Synaxarium,414

    Euclid,385,404

    Eudoxia,Empress,299,321,324

    Euphrates,145

    European Parliament,86

    Eusebius,342

    Eustathios the Roman,Abba,452

    Euthymius of Salonica,St,4-5

    Evagrius of Antioch,402

    Evdokimos,Fr.,290-4

    Fanous,Sami,359-62,363-5,367-8,370

    Faradi,363

    Farud,Kibbutz,364

    Fatah,229,268

    Fatullah,Sheikh,121-2

    Ferhat,Wadeer,367-72

    Fesih(in Diyarbakir),81-2

    Fisk,Robert,208,210,215-20,237,274

    Florence,Laurentian Library,109

    Foda,Dr Farag,424,428

    Formilianus,Governor,320

    Forster,E.M.,377

    Franjieh,Mme,258-9

    Franjieh,Robert,242,258-60

    Franjieh,Suleiman,238,252-3,258

    Franjieh,Tony,253-5,258,260

    Franjieh family,242,252-5,257-60

    Freemasons,280,301,308

    Fuad,King of Egypt,18

    Gabra,Boutros,425

    Gaianas,263-4

    Gandhi,Mahatma,29

    Gardner,Ava,244

    Geagea,Samir,215,231,232,241,252,253-4

    Gema’a al-Islamiyya,411,424,425,435,439-45

    Gemayel,Amin,212

    Gemayel,Bashir,199,253,254,260

    Gemayel,Pierre,226

    Gemayel,Solange,260

    Genghis Khan,140

    George,St,45,47,339-44,386

    George Ⅱ,King of the Hellenes,18

    George the Cappadocian,Brother,285-6

    Gerasimos,St,296-7

    Ghada(in Mar Elias),266-75

    Ghanem,Iskander,253

    Ghatta family,370

    Gibbon,Edward,399

    Gibran,Khalil,236-7

    Gilmour,David,226

    Giotto,302

    Giva,Shulamit,333

    Glass,Charles,226

    Gnostics,16,66,68,73,175,299

    Gospel of Barnabas,62-3

    Gospel of Philip,68

    Gospels of St Willibrord,109,110

    Goths,13

    Great Kharga Oasis,4,387,395,422,435,447,450-4

    Green Line,205,212,239,273

    Gregori,Fr.,279

    Gregory Ⅰ(the Great),Pope,55,320

    Gregory of Nazianzen,389

    Gregory of Nyssa,39,324

    Grenfell,Bernard,398-9

    Gulf War,101,139,357

    Gumucio,Juan Carlos,207-10

    Güngören,48,116

    Haganah,363,365,366

    Hagiopolis,159,171

    Haifa,268-9

    Hakkari,99,112

    Hamas,288,344

    Hamayonic Laws,412,426

    Hanauer,J.E.,339

    Haran,75

    Harari,Joe,377-9

    Haridi,Gemal,440-2

    Hariri,Rafiq,202

    Hassake,138-43;Hotel Cliff,138

    Hassana,113-14

    Haydarpasha,51

    Hebron,Tomb of the Patriarchs,338

    Hejaz,414

    Helena,Empress,35,320

    Heliodorus,221

    Henry Ⅳ,King of England,108

    Heraclius,Emperor,42,197

    Hermopolis,437

    Herod Agrippa,331

    Hezbollah:in Lebanon,189,195,207-8,211,216,227-8,264,266;in Turkey,96,103

    Hilary of Poitiers,St,176

    Hindus,66

    Hintlian,George,88

    Homer,47,181,404

    Homs,185-6

    Hunt,Arthur,398-9

    Hussein,King of Jordan,318

    Hussein,Saddam,139

    Hypatia,388

    Ibn Mansour,Sergios,298

    Ibn Sargun,Mansour,298

    Ibn Walid,General Khalid,298

    Ibrahim,Metropolitan Gregorios Yohanna,146,148-51,154,171

    intifada,282,346,353

    Irish Litany of Saints,107,419

    Isa(in Jerusalem),327

    Isidore of Miletus,27

    Islam:Arab history,214,299-300;Nusairi,73;prayer positions,105,304-5;relationship with Christianity,168-71,187-91,304-5,339-40,426-7;Shiite,153,217,219,228-9,261-2,264,266;Sunni,73,154,155,217;tradition of tolerance,19,187-8

    Islamic fundamentalism:growth of,168,214;in Egypt,20,214,411,424-5,429-30,433,448;in Syria,154;in Turkey,31-2;relationship with Christianity,447-8

    Islamic Jihad,219

    Ismail(driver),57,61

    Isocasius,164

    Israel Antiquities Authority,332

    Issus,52

    Istanbul(Constantinople):Armenian population,30-4;Christianity,19,27-31;fall of Constantinople(1453),108;Fourth Crusade,9;Golden Horn,26,29;Great Palace,26,41-3;Greek population,27-8,43,45-7;Gulhane Gardens,43;Haghia Eirene,43,328;Haghia Sophia,27,39-40,41;Hippodrome,39;Land Walls,321;Mosaic Museum,42-3;Moschos’s stay in Constantinople,14,21,27,34-5,41,182;Pera Palas Hotel,28;Phanar,29-33,34,50;politics,29;Prinkipo,44,45-7;Topkapi Palace,18,43

    Iviron,Monastery of,3-4,5-11,21,355

    Izlo Mountains,98,112

    Jacob,Elias,366-72

    Jacob’s Well,356

    James of Cyrrhestica,158,166

    J’bail,241,243

    Jerome,St:advice on bathing,11,222;advice on Jerusalem,323;Life of St Paul the First Hermit,417-18,420;lion story,296;patrons,321

    Jerusalem:Alexander Hospice,328;Anglican church,358;Armenian library,83;Armenian Museum,88;Armenian population,309-15;Armenian Quarter,309-12,315,318,330;Cardo,328;Christian population,316-26;Christian Quarter,316,317,339;Church of St Cosmas and St Damian,322;Church of St John the Baptist,327;Damascus Gate,328,332,337;Dome of the Rock,228,265,327;Dormition Abbey,358;fall to Sassanian Persians(614),14,42;fall to Islam(638),17,321;Greek Orthodox Patriarchal Palace,289,321,356;Holy Sepulchre,318,328,339;Jaffa Gate,332;Jewish Quarter,312-13,328;Maghariba,312;Mamilla Project,332;Muslim Quarter,313,318;Nea,the(New Church of Mary),328;Orthodox Christianity,300,302;Protestant cemetery,358;St George’s Anglican Cathedral,358,364;St John’s Hospice,312-13;St Stephen’s Monastery,233,321,329;Third Wall,331-2

    Jerusalem Post,331-2,338,357

    Jews:archaeology,332-4;at Beit Jala,339;Barsauma’s massacre,324-5;Byzantine stories,55;European,19,344;fundamentalist,312,315,331,338,358;in Alexandria,375,377-9;in Beirut,219;Moschos on,16,34;Orthodox attitude to,280;Ottoman Empire,28;settlement in Israel,313,345,363;synagogue chants,177

    Jish,363,367,370

    Jiyyeh,224

    John,Abba,451-2

    John of Cappadocia,446

    John of Emesa,Deacon,185

    John of Nikiu,Bishop,388,429

    John the Almsgiver,388,419

    John the Arab,St,102,121

    John the Baptist,73

    John Tzimiskes,Emperor,8

    Joseph,Abba,162

    Joseph,George,139-40,142-6

    Jounieh,255

    Julian the Apostate,Emperor,53,79

    Julian the Arab,Brother,286

    Jumblatt,Kemal,199,232

    Jumblatt,Walid,225-7,229,230-1,253,334

    Justinian,Emperor:Christian-Arab alliance,335;empire,13,26-7,41,165,Justinian,Emperor-cont’d. 263,335,398,446;Haghia Sophia,39,263;legislation,36;portrait,14;Procopius’s Secret History,37;Ravenna mosaics,14,233;Samaritan revolt,323;Seidnaya story,186

    Kafr Bir’im,268,269,271,274-5,362,365-72

    Kafr Qasim,347

    Karantina,massacre,267,272

    Karyes,5,355

    Katsimbris,Taki,393-4

    Keban Dam,85

    Kedron,Valley of,283

    Keenan,Brian,207

    Kennedy,John F.,308

    Khabur River,143

    Kharga,395,447,449-54;Kharga Oasis Hotel,451

    Khitzkonk,87

    Khomeini,Ayatollah,203,219,262,264

    al-Khuri,Faris,153

    Koshaya,249

    Kreish,Cardinal,371

    Krikor(in Jerusalem),315

    Kurd Dagh,171

    Kurdish war,31,47,50-3,79,447,see also PKK

    Kyriacos,Abouna,105

    la Motraye,M.de,28

    Lahad,General,216

    Laqzaly,Farah,369

    Lausanne,Treaty of(1923),30

    Lawrence,T.E.,133,134,135

    Lebanese National Pact(1943),198

    Lebanon,Mount,197

    Leo,Abba,452,453

    Leo Ⅲ,Emperor,234

    Leontios the Cilician,Abba,328

    Leptis Magna,94

    Libanius,56,161,181,221

    Lindsay,Coutts,5

    Lombards,13

    London Library,399

    Lucian of Samosata,75-6

    Lucine(in Diyarbakir),81

    Lycopolis,446-7

    McCarthy,John,207

    McCullin,Don,195

    Ma’ale Adumim,283

    Madaba,334

    Mahmoud,Arafa,442

    Mahmoud(driver),435-6,438-40,443-6

    Malacrida,Gianmaria,174-7

    Mallawi,436

    Malraux,André,392

    Mamshit,338

    Mandeans,73

    Manicheans,16,68

    Manshit Nasser,441

    Manuel Ⅱ Palaeologus,Emperor,107

    Mar Bobo,96

    Mar Elias camp,266-75,287,362

    Mar Gabriel,47,64,72,97,98-115,168,287

    Mar Hadbashabo,119,121

    Mar Saba,279-81,283-309,409

    Marada Militia,242,253

    Marcionites,67-8

    Mardin,97,135

    Mark the Hermit,St,406

    Marmara,Sea of,26

    Maron,St,197

    Maronites:churches,220;history,196-9,243;in Bsharre,236-7,242;in Turkey,63;Lebanese civil war,20,198-200,212-13,217,226-7,241,251,273,448;Phalange,198,212-13,226-7,236,273

    Martyrion,Mount Zion,356,359

    Maslakh,272

    Mas’ud(driver),88-90,92-100,115-18,123,124-9,135,137

    Maurice,Emperor,263,322

    Maydanlar,83

    Mazices,413,451

    Mazloumian,Krikor(‘Coco’),151

    Mazloumian,Sally,151-2

    Mehmed Sokollu Pasha,Grand Vizier,27

    Menas(driver),430,431,433-4

    Menuthis,Shrine of Saints Cyrus and John,387

    Messalians,67

    Methodius,Fr.,340-44

    Methodius the Stylite,St,292

    Metin(hotel receptionist),49-50

    Midyat,64,72,98,115-23,135

    el-Minya,422,436

    Mohammed,17,234

    Monidia,414

    Monophysites,16,91,197,299-300,387-8

    Monothelitism,197

    Mons Mirabilis,57,59-60,286

    Mons Porphyrites,27,446

    Montfort,Simon de,73

    Moschos,John:at Great Oasis,451-2,454;death,14,17,285;grave,18,285-7;in Alexandria,11,16,387-9,419,453;in Antioch,54-9;in Ba’albek,223,257,259-60;in Constantinople,14,21,27,34-5,41,182;in Jerusalem,322;in Porphyreon,223,224,233;journey,11-14,19-21,395,413-14,435,437-8,447,449-50;monastic life,279,354-5,359-62;on Apamea,183;on demons,163;on Nisibis,136;on plagues,326;Spiritual Meadow,4,12-16,18-19,21,58-9,105,183,223,233,279,294-7,334,355,361-2,390-1,413-14,429,437,447,453

    Moshav Dovev,369,372

    Mubarak,President Hosni,20,377,412,423-6,434-5

    Munir family,440-1

    Mushabbak,basilica of,160-1

    Muslim Brotherhood,395,427

    Nachman,Ron,351-3

    Namek,Malfono,172-4

    Nasbeh clan,346

    Nasser,Gamal Abdel,375,380,394,428,500-1

    Nazareth,363,364-5,371

    Nebo,Mount,334

    Negev,325

    Nestorian Church,66,136,139-42,451

    Nestorius,447

    New York Review of Books,333

    Nimrod the Hunter,74

    Nisibis,72,135-7,139,154

    Nordenfalk,Carl,109-11

    Nusairi Muslims,73

    Olympios,Abba,292-3

    Omar,Caliph,17,334

    Osk Vank,87

    Ottoman Empire,27-28,48,188,197,339,377

    Ouranoupolis,4

    Ouzayeh Beach,227

    Oxyrhynchus,396-8;papyri,399-401,437

    Pachomius,St,295

    Palestinian Authority,282

    Palestinian Christians:emigration,20,213,316-18;history,19,300;in Israel,300,316-26,362-3;in refugee camps,261,266-75,287,317,363

    Palutians,68

    Pambo,Abba,408

    Paphnutius,449

    Paradise of the Fathers,The,295

    Parthenius,Bishop of Lampsacus,20

    Patermuthis,Flavius,437

    Patrick(of Sebastea),286

    Paul,Abba,360

    Paul,St,59

    Paul Ⅲ Farnese,Pope,108

    Paul the Hermit,St,417-18,420-1

    Paula,321

    Paulinus of Nola,323

    Persians:attacks on Byzantine empire,13,95,388;capture of Alexandria,453;capture of Diyarbakir(502),79;capture of Jerusalem(614),13-14,42;capture of Nisibis(363),135;massacre at Mar Saba(614),289,299;massacre at St Theodosius Monastery(614),13,284-4,289

    Peter,St,59

    Petrosyan,Levon Ter,153

    Phalange militia:attacks on Christians,215-17,253,272-3;civil war,195,211-13,226-5;massacres,198,215,226;origins,226

    Pharan,354-5,359

    Philloumenos,355-7,359

    Phoebamon the Sophist,437

    Photion,323

    Photius,321

    Piaf,Edith,378

    Piccirillo,Fr.Michele,335-8

    Pictish Christianity,421-2

    PKK:effects of struggle,101;government response to,99,112,113;Hezbollah relationship,96-7;Midyat raid,64,72;origins of struggle,48;roadblocks,49,89-90;treatment of captives,49-50

    Plato,136,403

    PLO,195,272,273,352

    Poemon the Grazer,Abba,295-6

    Polo,Marco,82

    Pope,Hugh,47-9

    Porphyreon,223,224-5,232-5,335

    Potuoglu,Hilda Hulya,86

    Prinkipo,44,45-7

    Procopius,37-9,40,321

    Procopius the lawyer,224,233

    Ptolemy,385

    Qadisha Valley,244,245

    Qala’at Semaan,149

    Qamishli,150,154

    Qanubbin Gorge,247,251

    Rabinovitch,Olga,378-9

    Rabula Gospels,184,190

    Ramallah,343-4

    Ramazan(driver),395-7,435,439

    Ramleh,358

    Ravenna,14,27,233,234-5,328

    Refah party,29,28,44

    Rehman(in Diyarbakir),81-2

    Roberts,David,182,282

    Romanos the Melodist,St,176,185,290

    Rosemarkie Stone,110

    Rouba,295

    Rufinus of Aquileia,402

    Runciman,Sir Steven,18-21,320,328

    Sabas,St,292-3,305

    Sabbatios,Abba,297

    Sabra,massacre,195,198-9,211,215,236,267

    Sadat,Anwar,37,428

    Sadat,Mrs Anwar,259

    Safad,365

    St Antony Monastery,Koshaya,249-50

    St Antony’s Monastery,Egypt,396,403-22

    St Azozoyel,Monastery of,95

    St Catherine’s Monastery,Sinai,9,391

    St Damiana,Church of,Cairo,21

    St Jacob,Monastery of,95

    St John’s Hospice,Jerusalem,312

    St Joseph,Monastery of,95

    St Martyrius,Monastery of,283

    St Mary of the Waterfall,Monastery of,95

    St Polyeuctes,Istanbul,44

    St Stephen,Monastery of,Jerusalem,233,321,329

    St Theodosius,Monastery of,11,13,18,354

    St Vigeans,420

    Saladin,135,268,310

    Salibi,Kemal,210,211-14,217,223

    Salit,Dina,353-4

    Samaritans,323

    San Vitale,Ravenna,233,328

    Sanabu,439-41

    Sappho,399

    Sarkissian,Bishop Hagop,311,326,328-31

    Sasa,Kibbutz,369

    Sassanian Persians,13,135,289,303,388

    Schiffer,Claudia,202

    Scythopolis,325

    Seidnaya,186-91,196,339

    Seleucia ad Pieria,13,54

    Serjilla,177,181,184,185

    Severus,Bishop of Antioch,222

    Shabo,Abouna,118-23

    Shah of Iran,258,425

    Shaheen,Dr Abdul,427

    Shenoudah Ⅲ,Pope,411

    Shitrit,Bichor,367

    Sidon,13

    Sienese art,302

    Silk Route,26,65,79

    Silpius,Mount,56

    Silwan,330

    Simocatta,Theophylact,35

    Sinatra,Frank,244

    Sisinnios,Bishop,37

    Sivas,82-3

    Skellig Michael,303

    Slavs,13

    Socrates(Ecclesiastical History),40

    Somers,Virginia,5

    Sophocles,399

    Sophronius the Sophist:at Great Oasis,447;death,18;in Alexandria,387-90,419;journey with Moschos,11,19-20,296,454;Life of St John the Almsgiver,419;Moschos’s body,18,285;Patriarch of Jerusalem,18,197,318;surrender of Jerusalem,18,321,329

    South Lebanon Army(SLA),216

    Stephanopoulos,Michael,393-4

    Stephanos,Catholicos of Armenia,107-8

    Stephen,St,323

    Stephen the Sophist,35,390

    Studium Biblicum Franciscanum,334,337

    Sufism,164,166,168,343,397

    Suleiman,Fr.Bishara,365-6,368-72

    Suleiman,John,365,370

    Suleiman,Nouri,228-9,237-8,243-5,251,261,265,266

    Sulpicius Severus,295

    Sunday Telegraph,313

    Sunday Times,423,425

    Sussita,338

    Symeon,Abouna,92-8

    Symeon Stylites the Elder,St,59-60,148,156

    Symeon Stylites the Younger,St,58-62,286

    Symeon the Fool,St,185

    Synesius,385

    Syrian Orthodox Church(Suriani):establishment,91;in Aleppo,147-50;in Turkey,19-20,47-9,91,114,125-6,150,447-8;Urfalees,171-7;see also Deir el-Zaferan,Mar Gabriel

    Tamurlane,95

    Tariq(in Biddya),346-50

    Tarsus,183

    Tatian,108

    Tecla,Sister,188-91

    Tel Ada,148-9

    Tel el-Za’atar,massacre,226,236,272

    Tertullian,385

    Thalelaeus,158,162

    Theodora,Empress,14,37-9,233,321,446

    Theodore,Abba,452

    Theodore of Mopsuestia,54

    Theodore of Sykeon,163

    Theodore of Tarsus,54,106

    Theodore the Philosopher,389

    Theodoret of Cyrrhus,Bishop:bishopric,159,164-6;History of the Monks of Syria,148,156-9,161,181,197,262-3

    Theodosius,St,284-6,289

    Theodosius Ⅰ,Emperor,39,41

    Theodosius Ⅱ,Emperor,35,321,323

    Theophanes,Fr.,280-1,290-4,301,302,305-9,318

    Theophilus,Patriarch,389

    Thessaloniki,15

    Thierry,J.M.,85,87

    Thubron,Colin,187

    Thucydides,404

    Tiberias,359

    Tiberius Constantine,Emperor,263

    Tigris,River,26,73,79,88-90

    Tintagel Castle,419

    Tischendorff,Herman,9

    Tito,Marshal,259

    Titus,Emperor,320

    Tomas Bektas,Fr.,112-14

    Tosi,Abdil Mesiyah,441-2

    Tur Abdin:art,107,111;journey to,64,107,447;Syrian Orthodox Church,91,150;Turoyo language,154

    Turkish Daily News,64,71

    Turoyo,112,118,154

    Tutu,Archbishop Desmond,358

    Tyre,13,223

    Umayyad Caliphate,298-300,337

    Um-Mohammed,346-50

    Urfa,64-79;Fishponds of Abraham,73-7;Hotel Turban,64-5;sculpture garden,69-71;Ulu Jami,71,77;Urfalees,171-7

    Urfalees,171-7

    Uri,Nebi,164,167-70

    Usamah(in Biddya),345-51

    Valens,Emperor,41,324

    Vandals,26

    Vikings,26

    Voragine,Jacobus da,342

    Wadi Natrun,404,413-14

    Waite,Terry,207

    West Bank,281-3,302,317,338-51,363

    Wigram,Rev.W.A.,80

    Willibald,St,186,289

    Woolley,Leonard,134

    Xenophontos,Monastery of,296

    Yacoub,Brother,100-4,116-19,123,126

    Yacovos,Fr.,6-7,10

    al-Yazid,Caliph,298-9

    Yerevan,153

    Yezidis,140,154

    Yohanan of Bar’am,369

    Yunis,Dr Ibthal,427

    Yustus,Abuna,406-7

    Zachaios,Abba,224

    Zacharias,Rector,222

    Zeitun,151

    Zeno,Emperor,37,445

    Zenobia,70

    Zghorta,252,253,257-60

    Zion,Mount,27,321,356,358,359

    Zoilus the Reader,389

    Zoroastrians,16,68,79

    Zosimos the Cilician,Abba,224,234,429

    Zoulias,Nicholas,392-4