Senjārí, Tʼomā, Telkepnāyā, -approximately 1860
Hymnographer and author of religious literature
- HMML ID
- 920290349660
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- LC name
- Senjārí, Tʼomā, Telkepnāyā, -approximately 1860
- HMML name
- Senjārí, Tʼomā, Telkepnāyā, -approximately 1860
- HMML native script
- ܬܐܘܡܐ ܣܢܓܪܝ ܬܠܟܦܢܝܐ
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- VIAF
Variants
- Senjārí, Tʼomā, of Tel Keppe
- Sindjari, Thomas Tektek
- Tektek Sindjari, Thomas
- Tʼomā Senjārí Telkepnāyā
- Tʼomā Senjārí, of Tel Keppe
- Tʼomā Tektek d-beit Qāšā
- Tʼōmā Sinǧārī
- Tʼōmā Sinǧārī Telkēpnāyā
- Tʼōmā Tektek Sinǧārī Telkēpnāyā
- ܬܐܘܡܐ ܣܢܓܪܝ ܬܠܟܦܢܝܐ
Personal information
- Death date
- 1860~
- Centuries
- 18th century CE ● 19th century CE
- Gender
- Males
- Place residence
- Associated countries
- Occupations
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General notes
- Description
- Thomas Tektek Sindjari; born Telkepe, died ca. 1860; bandit attacking caravans in Djebel Sindjar as a youth; converted, returned to Telkepe, worked as a weaver, "hence the surname Tektek, which recalls the sound of the shuttle"; sang his poems in Christian villages, collecting alms
- Citations
- Alessandro Mengozzi, Religious Poetry in Vernacular Syriac from Northern Iraq (17th-20th centuries): An Anthology. CSCO 628. Louvain: Peeters, 2011, p. xiv.
- Description
- Thomas Tektek Sindjari; in a list of authors who "wrote dorekthā poems in Sureth"
- Citations
- Alessandro Mengozzi, "Alqosh, School of," Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, electronic ed., accessed September 28, 2022, https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Alqosh-School-of.
- Description
- Tʼōmā Sinǧārī Telkēpnāyā, author of 5 undated poems in Cod. Sachau 232; name also appears as Tʼōmā Sinǧārī or Tʼōmā Tektek Sinǧārī Telkēpnāyā; may have copied a manuscript in 1771?
- Citations
- Rudolf Macuch, Geschichte der spät- und neusyrischen Literatur (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1976), 101-2.
- Description
- ܬܐܘܡܐ ܣܢܓܪܝ ܬܠܟܦܢܝܐ = Tʼomā Senjārí Telkepnāyā; Dúrektā on grace, composed by Tʼomā Senjārí Telkepnāyā in 1812 CE, fol. 146v-181r; Dúrektā on solitary monks, composed by Tʼomā Senjārí Telkepnāyā in 1823 CE, fol. 181r-205r
- Citations
- CSDMA 00037, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, accessed February 7, 2022, https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/500479.
Preferred citation
"Senjārí, Tʼomā, Telkepnāyā, -approximately 1860." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified September 28, 2022. https://w3id.org/haf/person/920290349660
Change notes
- Date added
- 2022-02-07
- Last edited
- 2022-09-28