The Nestorians

For more about the modern Assyrians of the Middle East (known in Dr. Grant’s day as the Nestorians) go to the website of the Assyrian International News Agency: www.aina.org.  This site contains a multitude of sources, and includes full texts of some of the most important literary works about these people.

To read about the history of the Church of the East (Nestorian), consult the Nestorian Pages: http://www.oxuscom.com/nestpage.htm. This site, posted by Mark Dickens, a scholar at Cambridge University, England, is rich with resources about all things Nestorian.  Highly recommended.

The official site for the Church of the East: www.cired.org

Also, check www.nestorian.org, an “unofficial” yet excellent site for the Nestorian Church.

For the Chaldeans, that part of the Church of the East which joined Rome in the 16^th century, see www.chaldeansonline.net .

Scholary journals devoted to Syriac subjects are Hugoye (http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/) and Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies online (www.jaas.org).

 

History of Medicine.  For a look at a typical doctor’s office in 19^th century America, see: http://people.depauw.edu/bhanson/hutchings/hutchings.htm

 

Yezidis.  Asahel Grant was one of the first Western observers to report on the Yezidis. For more about this mysterious Kurdish-speaking sect, see www.nadir.org.  For Austen Henry Layard’s account of them in his Nineveh and its Remains, see http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Layard/DiscNineveh08.html.

 

Images.  Too many sites to list.  For a good all-round look at Turkey, try http://www.math.umn.edu/~alayont/turkiye/turkiye1.html.  Or go to any search engine’s Images Search and start typing in place names: Smyrna, Istanbul, Trebizond, Erzurum, Urmia, Van, Mosul, Hakkari, etc.