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History

Background

• Background of Antiochian and Syriac Christianity (Studies in Syriac Christianity, S. Brock, The Formation of Christianity in Antioch, M. Zetterholm)
• Controversies of Ephesus and Chalcedon (Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy, S. Wessel)
• Formation of the hierarchy of the West Syrian church (Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Church, V. L. Menze; Severus of Antioch, P, Allen & R. Hayward)

Early contacts with Roman Papacy

• Crusaders and the Syrian Orthodox Church (The Crusades: Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, M. Moosa; The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, C. MACEvitt)
• Council of Florence (?)

Formation of the Syriac Catholic Church

• Missionaries in Aleppo (Catholics and sultans, C. Frazee; Muslim-Christian Relations and Inter-Christian Rivalries in the Middle East, J. Joseph)
• Akidjan and Shahbaddin
• Acephalous Syriac Catholics of the 18th century

Re-formation of the Church

• Jarweh
• Aleppan patriarchs

Late Ottoman period

• overview of growth
  • Growth at expense of Syriac Orthodox
• Mardin patriarchs
• Seyfo

Contemporary history

• Benni, Rahmani and Tappuni
• Hayek, Daoud, Abdalahad and Younan
• Iraq war, Syria war and diaspora

General references

Eastern Christianity in the Modern Middle East, A. O'Mahony, E. Loosley

• The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity, K. Parry
• The Oxford Dictionary Of The Christian Church, F. L. Cross, E. A. Livingstone
• The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch at a Glance, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas