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| Isaac Armalet was born in ] and joined the ] in ] at the age of 16. He was ordained a priest in 1903 and later became close to the Syriac Catholic Patriarchs ] and ].<ref name=Lyon>{{cite web|last=عبد الصمد|first=ليون|title=الخورفسقفوس اسحق أرملة ( + 1954 )|url=http://www.syrcata.org/index.php?module=subjects&func=listpages&subid=221|publisher=Archibishopric of the Syriac Catholic Church in Aleppo|accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref> | Isaac Armalet was born in ] and joined the ] in ] at the age of 16. He was ordained a priest in 1903 and later became close to the Syriac Catholic Patriarchs ] and ].<ref name=Lyon>{{cite web|last=عبد الصمد|first=ليون|title=الخورفسقفوس اسحق أرملة ( + 1954 )|url=http://www.syrcata.org/index.php?module=subjects&func=listpages&subid=221|publisher=Archibishopric of the Syriac Catholic Church in Aleppo|accessdate=13 December 2011}}</ref> | ||
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| He spent the rest of his life in the Charfet Monastery, Lebanon, where he wrote and copied a large number of manuscripts in Syriac and Arabic.<ref name=Lyon/> | He spent the rest of his life in the Charfet Monastery, Lebanon, where he wrote and copied a large number of manuscripts in Syriac and Arabic.<ref name=Lyon/> | ||
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Isaac Armalet (Template:Lang-syr ʼIsḥoq Bar ʼArmalto) (6 March 1879 – 2 September 1954), was a Syriac Catholic prolific scholar, historian, and scribe.
Life
Isaac Armalet was born in Mardin and joined the Charfet Monastery in Lebanon at the age of 16. He was ordained a priest in 1903 and later became close to the Syriac Catholic Patriarchs Ephrem Rahmani and Gabriel Tappuni.
Armalet was arrested during the First World War by the Ottoman Army, but was later released. During the war he stayed in Mardin, where he witnessed the , which he describes in his book The Utmost of Christian Calamities.
He spent the rest of his life in the Charfet Monastery, Lebanon, where he wrote and copied a large number of manuscripts in Syriac and Arabic.
Armalet died on 2 September 1954 in Beirut.
References
- ^ عبد الصمد, ليون. "الخورفسقفوس اسحق أرملة ( + 1954 )". Archibishopric of the Syriac Catholic Church in Aleppo. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- Lane, Pusey. "Isaac Armalet, Catalogue of the Syriac and Arabic Manuscripts at the Patriarchal Library of Charfet". HUGOYE: JOURNAL OF SYRIAC STUDIES. Retrieved 13 December 2011.