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Title
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About Arab Muslims Who Married Christian Syrian Women
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Date
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769–770 AD
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Description
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"Because this man was so cunning and crafty, no place in which someone hid any object escaped his attention, as if that very object had been calling him, saying: “Here I am! I belong to so and so!” He was aware of everything as quickly as the one who hid or put away an object, and everything was revealed to him, as is written about the Son of Perdition. As for the people who married (Syrian) women, sired Syrian children, and mixed with the Syrians, and whom no one was able to distinguish from the Aramaeans, he quickly found out about them."
In 769–770 CE, the Abbasid governor’s agents hunted down fugitives from Mosul hiding in villages across the Jazira. Some were Muslim Arabs who had married local Christian women, fathered children, and lived among the Syriac-speaking Christian population so long that they were outwardly indistinguishable from the Aramaeans (here meaning Syrians). Despite this, the governor identified them, seized them, and confiscated their property.
Amir Harrak notes: Aramaeans here is synonymous with Syrians (Syriac-speaking Christians; see the note on p. 225 n. 1 above). The men in question may have been Muslim Arabs who had married Christian women.
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Language
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Syriac-Aramaic
Chronicle of Zuqnin
