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Rabban ("Our Master"; c.f. "Rabbi" "my lord" in Judaism) Bar Ṣawma was born c. 1220 in or near modern-day Beijing, known then as Zhongdu, [4] later as Khanbaliq under Mongol rule. According to Bar Hebraeus he was of Uyghur origin. [5] Chinese accounts describe his heritage as Öngüd, a Turkic people classified as members of the "Mongol ...
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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. Born into a wealthy Christian family ...
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May 13, 2021 · Rabban Bar Sauma left China in 1275, followed the Silk Road, and made his way to Baghdad, Constantinople, and France, meeting khans, kings, and a pope. The remarkable Bar Sauma was born in Zhongdu ...
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.
Bar Sauma (c. 1220-1294) belonged to the Nestorians, a sect named after the Persian priest Nestorius (d. 451). The latter, who became bishop of Constantinople, taught that Christ had two separate identities, one human and one divine. At the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Church declared Nestorianism a heresy, and soon this doctrinal separation ...
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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 ...
Ani. "In his middle age, Rabban Bar Sauma and one of his younger students, Rabban Markos, embarked on a journey from Yuan China to make pilgrimage to Jerusalem. They traveled by way of the former Tangut country, Khotan, Kashgar, Taraz in the Syr Darya valley, Khorasan (now Afghanistan), Maragha (now Azerbaijan) and Mosul, arriving at Ani in the ...
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