Dominican-Iraqi scholarship and the Syro-Chaldean seminary of Mosul: Creating and maintaining a shared space of scholarly activity (1878-1950)

Tijmen C. Baarda

Dominican-Iraqi scholarship and the Syro-Chaldean seminary of Mosul: Creating and maintaining a shared space of scholarly activity (1878-1950)

Tijmen C. Baarda

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The Syro-Chaldean seminary of the Dominican mission in Mosul was created in 1878 and functioned as a meeting place for knowledge production concerning the Syriac language, literature and traditions. Both local clergy and French missionaries took active part in this scholarly endeavour, the fruits of which are still widely in use by scholars today. However, while there were several important publications from Chaldean authors with the Dominican mission press before the First World War, the period after the war does not show this high degree of integration between French and local scholars. In this contribution, I will show that this rupture is related to a general change in the language policy of the Dominican mission and its seminary, where a subtle move in focus on Arabic and the other local languages to a concentration on French is visible.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	« In partibus fidelium »
Subtitle of host publication	Missions du Levant et connaissance de l’Orient chrétien (XIXe-XXIe siècles)
Editors	Marie Levant, Philippe Bourmaud, Séverine Gabry-Thienpont, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Norig Neveu
Place of Publication	Rome
Publisher	Publications de l’École française de Rome
Pages	263-282
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9782728315581
ISBN (Print)	9782728315574
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Collection de l'École française de Rome
Publisher	Publications de l’École française de Rome
Volume	609
ISSN (Print)	0223-5099

Keywords

Catholicism
Syriac Christianity
Arabic
Aramaic
Iraq

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Baarda, T. C. (2022). Dominican-Iraqi scholarship and the Syro-Chaldean seminary of Mosul: Creating and maintaining a shared space of scholarly activity (1878-1950). In M. Levant, P. Bourmaud, S. Gabry-Thienpont, K. Sanchez Summerer, & N. Neveu (Eds.), « In partibus fidelium »: Missions du Levant et connaissance de l’Orient chrétien (XIXe-XXIe siècles) (pp. 263-282). (Collection de l'École française de Rome; Vol. 609). Publications de l’École française de Rome. https://books.openedition.org/efr/46547

Baarda, Tijmen C. / Dominican-Iraqi scholarship and the Syro-Chaldean seminary of Mosul : Creating and maintaining a shared space of scholarly activity (1878-1950). « In partibus fidelium »: Missions du Levant et connaissance de l’Orient chrétien (XIXe-XXIe siècles). editor / Marie Levant ; Philippe Bourmaud ; Séverine Gabry-Thienpont ; Karène Sanchez Summerer ; Norig Neveu. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2022. pp. 263-282 (Collection de l'École française de Rome).

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Baarda, TC 2022, Dominican-Iraqi scholarship and the Syro-Chaldean seminary of Mosul: Creating and maintaining a shared space of scholarly activity (1878-1950). in M Levant, P Bourmaud, S Gabry-Thienpont, K Sanchez Summerer & N Neveu (eds), « In partibus fidelium »: Missions du Levant et connaissance de l’Orient chrétien (XIXe-XXIe siècles). Collection de l'École française de Rome, vol. 609, Publications de l’École française de Rome, Rome, pp. 263-282. <https://books.openedition.org/efr/46547>

Dominican-Iraqi scholarship and the Syro-Chaldean seminary of Mosul: Creating and maintaining a shared space of scholarly activity (1878-1950). / Baarda, Tijmen C.
« In partibus fidelium »: Missions du Levant et connaissance de l’Orient chrétien (XIXe-XXIe siècles). ed. / Marie Levant; Philippe Bourmaud; Séverine Gabry-Thienpont; Karène Sanchez Summerer; Norig Neveu. Rome: Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2022. p. 263-282 (Collection de l'École française de Rome; Vol. 609).

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Baarda TC. Dominican-Iraqi scholarship and the Syro-Chaldean seminary of Mosul: Creating and maintaining a shared space of scholarly activity (1878-1950). In Levant M, Bourmaud P, Gabry-Thienpont S, Sanchez Summerer K, Neveu N, editors, « In partibus fidelium »: Missions du Levant et connaissance de l’Orient chrétien (XIXe-XXIe siècles). Rome: Publications de l’École française de Rome. 2022. p. 263-282. (Collection de l'École française de Rome).

Dominican-Iraqi scholarship and the Syro-Chaldean seminary of Mosul: Creating and maintaining a shared space of scholarly activity (1878-1950)

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