Search results
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 ...
- Monk, ambassador, writer
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
People also ask
Who was Rabban Bar Sauma?
Why did a Khan send Rabban Bar Sauma West?
Who is Bar Sauma?
Where did Rabban Bar AWMA travel?
January 1294, Baghdad, Iraq. Rabban bar Sauma (born c. 1220, Zhongdu [now Beijing], China—died January 1294, Baghdad, Iraq) 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Bar Sauma was born in or around 1225, near the site of present-day Beijing, China. Sauma's parents were wealthy Christians whose ancestry traced back to the Uighurs, a nomadic people hailing from Turkistan. His name, Bar Sauma, meant “the son of the fast.”. Rabban, which means “master,” was a title that would be granted to him later in ...
Rabban Bar Sauma. c.1220-1294. Chinese Nestorian Monk and Explorer. I n 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.
May 13, 2021 · Rabban Bar Sauma's epic, east-to-west travels rival Marco Polo’s. HISTORY MAGAZINE. This Chinese monk's epic, east-to-west travels rival Marco Polo's. In the 13th century, a Mongolian khan...
Download. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Rabban Bar Sauma. < 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. ←. Rabbah Bar Naḥmani. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 22. Rabban Bar Sauma. Rabbet. →. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. See also Rabban Bar Sauma on Wikipedia; and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer .
