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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 ...
Died: 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 ...
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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. He and a student also made a trip to Persia and Iraq.
Rabban Bar Sauma (Bar Ṣaumā, syriaque : ܒܪ ܨܘܡܐ, * vers 1225 à Pékin ; † janvier 1294 à Bagdad) est un Ouïghour chrétien nestorien à l'époque de la domination mongole, originaire de Pékin, qui se fit moine, et conduisit en Europe une mission diplomatique pour le compte d'un souverain mongol de Perse.
Jul 31, 2019 · Rabban Bar Sauma 1: The Monks of Kublai Khan. In the 1280s, Arghun Khan, lord of the Ilkhanate, might well have given hard thought to his situation and to his family’s recent past. His father, Abaqa, Kublai Khan’s nephew, had died in 1282, the final years of his reign and life consumed with an ultimately unsuccessful campaign against the ...
Rabban (Master) Bar Sauma was born c. 1220 in or near modern-day Beijing, known then as Zhongdu or Khanbaligh. According to Gregory Barhebraeus he was of Turkic Uyghur origin. [3] Chinese accounts describe his heritage as Wanggu ( Ongud ), a tribe of Turkic origin classified as part of the Mongol Caste of the Yuan Dynasty . [4]
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 ...
