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Rabban Bar Ṣawma (Syriac language: ܪܒܢ ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ, [rɑbbɑn bɑrsˤɑwma]; c. 1220 – January 1294), also known as Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma (simplified Chinese: 拉班·扫马; traditional Chinese: 拉賓掃務瑪; pinyin: lābīn sǎowùmǎ), was a Uyghur or Ongud monk turned diplomat of the "Nestorian" Church of the East in ...
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Rabban Bar Sauma ( s. 1220–1294) ( ܪܒܢ ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ; IPA: [rɑbbɑn bɑrsˤɑuma] ), yang juga dikenal sebagai Rabban Ṣawma atau Rabban Çauma, [2] ( Hanzi: 拉賓掃務瑪; Pinyin: lābīnsǎowùmǎ ), adalah seorang biarawan Turkic/Tionghoa yang beralih menjadi diplomat dari Gereja dari Timur di Tiongkok "Nestorian".
- 1294, Baghdad
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Rabban bar Sauma was a Nestorian Christian ecclesiastic, whose important but little-known travels in western Europe as an envoy of the Mongols provide a counterpart to those of his contemporary, the Venetian Marco Polo, in Asia.
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May 13, 2021 · This Chinese monk's epic, east-to-west travels rival Marco Polo's. In the 13th century, a Mongolian khan sent Rabban Bar Sauma west to forge diplomatic ties with powerful leaders from Persia...
The first person from Turkik China to visit Europe, Bar Sauma (c. 1225–1294) was a Christian monk also known by the honorific Rabban Sauma. Sauma traveled to Rome and Paris on a diplomatic mission to attempt an alliance between western European monarchs and Mongols in Iran.
In the late 1280s, a Nestorian Christian monk named Rabban Bar Sauma took the opposite route of many of his contemporary explorers by venturing from his homeland in China to western Europe. He and a student also made a trip to Persia and Iraq.
In 1286 Arghun, the Ilkhan who ruled Persia, sent a request to the pope through the Nestorian monk, Rabban Bar Sauma, to send Catholic missionaries to the imperial court of Kublai (Emperor Shizu) of the Yuan dynasty of China, who was alleged to be well disposed toward Christianity.
