Re-assembling the past: Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, early Syriac historiography, and its Byzantine and Arab context (582-842) Ghent University
The crucial importance of Syriac historiography for the general history of the Mediëval Middle East has recently been highlighted (e.g. early history of Islam; crusades). Even if the genre has hence received attention beyond a small circle of specialists, there is still much work to be done to create the tools that make thorough and critical use of Syriac historiographical texts possible. This project
takes one major step in that ...