Giwargis Warda
Giwargis Warda was an Assyrian poet who lived in the 13th century.
Life
He was originally from Arbela and lived during the time of the Mongol invasions.
Works
Warda was a significant poet of the Syriac renaissance of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a number of whose poems were incorporated into the liturgy of the Church of the East.[1]
Only 34 out of 150 poems attributed to Giwargis Warda have been published so far.[2]
His most famous work is The Book of the Rose.[3][4]
Several hymns are the commemoration of historical events. One concerns a famine that struck northern Mesopotamia in 1223. One poem addresses the Mongol raids that plagued the region in 1235-1236.[5]
References
- ^ Wilhelm Baum (2003). The Church of the East: A Concise History. Routledge. p. 164. ISBN 9781134430192.
- ^ Mengozzi, Alessandro. "A Syriac Hymn on the Crusades from a Warda Collection." Egitto e Vicino Oriente 33 (2010): 187-203. [1]
- ^ Nöldeke, Th, and Heinr Hilgenfeld. "Ausgewählte Gesänge des Giwargis Warda von Arbel." (1904): 496-499. [2]
- ^ James E. Walters et al., “George Warda” in A Guide to Syriac Authors, eds. David A. Michelson and Nathan P. Gibson, entry published August 17, 2016, Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, ed. David A. Michelson. http://syriaca.org/person/504.
- ^ David Bundy (2013). "The Syriac and Armenian Responses to the Islamification of the Mongols". In John Victor Tolan (ed.). Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam: A Book of Essays. Routledge. p. 64. ISBN 9781136697890.