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THE MARONITES IN HISTORY é THE MARONITES IN HISTORY ÎJ3 Matti Moosa A 1 GORGIAS PRESS 2005 First Gorgias Press Edition, 2005. The special contents of this edition are copyright €> 2005 by Gorgias Press LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Gorgias Press LLC, New Jersey. This edition is a facsimile reprint of the original edition published by Syracuse University Press, New York, 1986. ISBN 1-59333-182-7 ÖP GORGIAS PRESS 46 Orris Ave., Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA www.gorgiaspress.com Printed and bound in the United States of America. To the memory of my beloved Father ISHAQ MOOSA (d. 1960) A token of filial love MATTI MOOSA is Professor of History at Gannon University, author of The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction, and editor of The Wives of the Prophets. Contents Preface 1 Introduction 5 1 Origin of the Term Maronite 11 2 The Identity of the Ascetic Marun 16 3 The Monastery of Marun 23 4 Earliest Sources on the Monastery of Marun 32 5 Maronite Claims and Sixth-Century Epistolary Documents 39 6 The Council of Constantinople of A.D. 536 and the Letter of the Monks of Syria Secunda to Pope Hormisda 54 7 The Maronites and Saint Simon the Stylite 64 8 Peter the Fuller and the Trisagion Dispute 69 9 Signatories to the Letter of the Monks to Pope Hormisda and Related Documents from the Council 74 10 The Maronites and the Letters of the Monks from Syria Secunda 81 11 Were the Monks of the Monastery of Marun Chalcedonians? 87 12 Heraclius and the Monothelitic Formula of Faith 95 13 The Malkites, the Maronites, and the Sixth Council 103 14 Establishment of the Maronites as a Separate Church 110 15 Who is John Marun? 118 16 John Marun: Was He a Patriarch of Antioch? 130 17 John Marun's Writings 148 18 Was John Marun a Canonized Saint? 167 19 The Relation of the Maronites to the Mardaites and the Jarajima 174 20 The Maronites and Monothelitism 195 21 The Relation of the Maronites to the Church of Rome 217 22 The Mission of Fra Gryphon and Other Franciscans to the Maronites 233 23 The Mission of Giovanni Battista Eliano to the Maronites 245 24 The Mission of Jerome Dandini to the Maronites 256 25 The Latinization of the Maronite Church 267 26 The Maronites in Modern Times 279 Notes 305 Bibliography 363 Index 381

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