The main Anaphora of the East Syrian tradition is the Holy Qurbana of Addai and Mari, while that of the West Syrian tradition is the Liturgy of Saint James.

The compilers of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy find pseudo-Dionysius to be most probably " a pupil of Proclus, perhaps of Syrian origin, who knew enough of Platonism and the Christian tradition to transform them both.

The story assumed an important place in later Christian tradition ; Byzantine liturgy estimated 14, 000 Holy Innocents while an early Syrian list of saints stated the number at 64, 000.

* Of Chaldean or East Syrian tradition:

It is much more likely that Thomas, which has a Syrian provenance, is dependent on the tradition of the canonical Gospels that has been abbreviated and harmonized by oral transmission.

Those who accepted the West Syrian theological and liturgical tradition of Mar Gregorios became known as Jacobites.

The " Old Party ", who continued with East Syrian and Latin theological and liturgical tradition and stayed faithful to the Synod of Diamper and the Roman Catholic Church came to be formally known as the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church from the second half of the 19th century onward.

* Tehillim on CD-Rom-Rabbi Shimon Alouf ( Psalms, Syrian tradition ).

The prayers specifically mentioned in the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum are not of the Latin Rite tradition alone, but also from the traditions of the Eastern Catholic Churches, such as the Akathistos, Paraklesis, Evening Prayer, and Prayer for the Faithful Departed ( Byzantine ), Prayer of Thanksgiving ( Armenian ), Prayer of the Shrine and the Lakhu Mara ( Chaldean ), Prayer of Incense and Prayer to Glorify Mary the Mother of God ( Coptic ), Prayer for the Remission of Sins and Prayer to Follow Christ ( Ethiopian ), Prayer for the Church, and Prayer of Leave-taking from the Altar ( Maronite ), and Intercessions for the Faithful Departed ( Syrian ).

There was formerly a distinctive tradition of Syrian Jewish religious music, which still flourishes in Syrian-Jewish communities around the world, such as New York City, Mexico City and Buenos Aires: see The Weekly Maqam, Baqashot and Pizmonim.

According to tradition, Abraham lived with one wife in Syria, but the Buraq would transport him in the morning to Mecca to see his family there, and take him back in the evening to his Syrian wife.

The Saint Thomas Christians ( also known as Nasrani or Syrian Christians ) from Kerala, South India still follow a lot of Jewish Christian tradition.

A Syrian Malabar Nasrani Church in Kerala, with the Holy of Holies containing the Nasrani Menorah or Mar Thoma Sliba ( St. Thomas Cross ) veiled by a red curtain in the tradition of Temple in Jerusalem | ancient Jewish synagogue.

Christianity has flourished in coastal South India from the times of St. Thomas the Apostle who came to Kerala in 52 AD and established the Syrian Christian tradition today called as Saint Thomas Christians or Nasranis.

In Syrian tradition, as well as in Quranic tradition, the specific summit of the " Mountains of Ararat " where Noah's ark landed is identified as Mount Judi in what is today Şırnak Province, Southeastern Anatolia Region, Turkey.

This allowed Mar Abo to stay for many decades in Chera kingdom and streamline Christian faith in the St. Thomas tradition with Syrian liturgy replacing the Sanskrit and Vedic prayers.

The tradition continued in the 4th century by Ephrem the Syrian and later by Saint Augustine in his Felix culpa, i. e. the happy fall from grace of Adam and Eve.

The West Syrian tradition is used by the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Maronite Church, the Syriac Catholic Church, and churches that descend from them, as well as by the Malankara churches of the Saint Thomas Christian tradition in India.

* Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition ; 2 rites

And in the 13th century a Syrian historian from Aleppo includes four references for couscous.

Syrian hamsters dig their burrows generally at a depth of 0. 7 m. A burrow includes a steep entrance pipe ( 4 – 5 cm in diameter ), a nesting and a hoarding chamber and a blind-ending branch for urination.

The proposed Syrian country includes Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait ; and southern Turkey, northern Egypt, and southwestern Iran.

Syria's population is 71 % Sunni Muslim ( includes most Arabs and Kurds, and 16 % other Muslim groups ( including 11. 0 % Alawi, Shi ' a Muslims ( 1. 1 % Imami / Twelvers and 1. 0 % Ismailis / Seveners ), 3. 2 % Druze, 1. 3 % Nusairism, 0. 7 Alevism ( all Turkomans ), Yezidism 0. 2 %) and 10 % Christian, with a Syrian Jewish community of a few dozen.

Traceable up to six generations, her father's paternal ancestry includes Sampsiceramus, a Syrian chieftain who founded the Royal family of Emesa ( modern Homs, Syria ) and Gaius Julius Bassianus, a high priest from Emesa and father of Roman Empress Julia Domna.

The definition of Mizrachi includes the modern Iraqi Jews, Syrian Jews, Lebanese Jews, Persian Jews, Afghan Jews, Bukharian Jews, Kurdish Jews, Mountain Jews, Georgian Jews.

The church employs the Syriac dialect of the Aramaic language in its liturgy, the East Syrian Rite, which includes three anaphoras, attributed to Saints Addai and Mari, Theodore of Mopsuestia and Nestorius.

The musical talent of Aleppo includes such names as Murder Eyez Syrian Legend, DJ BXTREME, DJ Garo, MTL and Apik Aroyan, among others.

The early literature of Syriac Christianity includes the Diatessaron of Tatian ; the Curetonian Gospels and the Syriac Sinaiticus ; the Peshitta Bible ; the Doctrine of Addai and the writings of Aphrahat ; and the hymns of Ephrem the Syrian.

In his book, Saadeh formulated his belief in the existence of a Syrian nation in a homeland defined as embracing all historic Syria extended to the Suez Canal in the south, and that includes modern Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait.

The boundaries of the historic environment in which the Syrian nation evolved went much beyond the scope usually ascribed to Syria, extending from the Taurus range in the north-east and the Zagros mountains in the north-west to the Suez Canal and the Red Sea in the south and includes the Sinai peninsula and the Gulf of Aqaba, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including the island of Cyprus, to the arch of the Arabian desert and the Persian Gulf in the east.

Al-Jazira is characterised as a outwash or alluvial plain, quite distinct from the Syrian Desert and lower-lying central Mesopotamia ; however the area includes eroded hills and incised streams.

As part of this doctoral work, Palackal brought out a CD, Qambel Maran, a collection of Syriac chants in the Chaldean tradition of the Syro-Malabar Church ; it includes the hymn Awun d ’ wasmayya, i. e., the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, arguably in the same words which were used by Jesus when he taught the Pater Noster, compositions by St. Ephrem the Syrian ( notably the acrostic hymn Iso maaran m ’ siha on the name Iso M ' siha, i. e., Jesus the Messiah ), and the Syriac translation Sabbah lesan of the Latin hymn Pange Lingua by St. Thomas Aquinas ; these chants had up to then been preserved in the main only in oral tradition ; among the singers is Fr.

It includes the Mediterranean climate Levant at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, bounded on the east and south by the Syrian and Negev deserts.

* 1984 – Muhsin Mahdi publishes an Arabic edition which he claims is faithful to the oldest Arabic versions surviving ( primarily based on the Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in combination with other early manuscripts of the Syrian branch ).

At the time of the merger, Syrian Airways was still only a small regional airline while its Egyptian counterpart, Misrair, was the largest and oldest airline in the Arab world, operating an extensive network out of Cairo, the region's metropolis.

As part of the contacts with the Near East, the reliefs from his funerary monuments also hold the oldest known representation of a Syrian bear.

: At this time, a volume of the Bible was found in a remote church of the mountains, containing the Old and the New Testaments, engrossed on strong vellum in large folio, having three columns in the page, written with beautiful accuracy, in the Estrangelo Syriac ( the character in which the oldest Syrian manuscripts are written ), and illuminated ; that the Syrian church assigns to this manuscript a high antiquity ; and that it has been handed down to the present time under circumstances so peculiarly favourable to accurate preservation, as may justly entitle it to respect, in the collation of doubtful readings in the sacred text.

The Byzantine text-type ( also called Majority Text, Traditional Text, Ecclesiastical Text, Constantinopolitan Text, Antiocheian Text, or Syrian Text ) is one of several text-types used in textual criticism to describe the textual character of Greek New Testament manuscripts.

In his later years he collected Greek and Syrian manuscripts to add to the late Pope Gregory XV's Eastern Library at the Vatican.

# Syrian and allied manuscripts, orthodox, Nestorian and Jacobite

# Syrian and Arabian manuscripts not distinctively theological