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Abramowski, Luise and Alan E. Goodman. A Nestorian Collection of Christological Texts: Cambridge University Library ms. 1319. Cambridge: CUP, 1972.
Alexander Mar Thoma. The Mar Thoma Church: Heritage and Mission. Tiruvalla, India: Ashram, 1985.
Aprem, Mar. The Chaldaean Syrian Church in India. Trichur, Kerala, India: Mar Narsai, 1977.
__________. The Council of Ephesus of 431. Trichur, Kerala, India: Mar Narsai, 1978.
Asmussen, Jes P. “Christians in Iran.” Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 3. Cambridge: CUP, 1983.
__________. “The Sogdian and Uighur-Turkish Christian Literature in Central Asia before the Real Rise of Islam: A Survey.” Indological and Buddhist Studies, ed. by L. A. Hercus et al. Canberra, Australia: Faculty of Asian Studies, 1982.
Assemani, Joseph A. De Catholicis seu Patriarchis Chaldaeorum et Nestorianorum, Commentarius Historico-Chronologicus. Rome, 1775. Reprint. Farnborough, England: Gregg International, 1969.
Assemani, J. S. Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-vaticano. 4 vols. Rome: Sacra Congregatio Propaganda Fide, 1719-1728.
Atiya, Aziz S. A History of Eastern Christianity. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968.
Ayer, J. C. Source-book for Ancient Church History. New York: Scribner, 1913.
Ayyer, L. K. Anantakrishna. Anthropology of the Syrian Christians. Ernakulam: Cochin Government Press, 1926.
Badger, George P. The Nestorians and Their Rituals. 2 vols. London: J. Masters, 1853.
Barthold, Vasilii V. Four Studies on the History of Central Asia. 3 vols. Vol. 1: A Short History of Turkestan, Vol. 2: Ulugh-Beg, Vol. 3: Mir ‘Ali-Shir and a History of the Turkmen People. English translation from the Russian by V. and T. Minorsky. Leiden: Brill, 1952-56.
__________. Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion. English translation of the Russian 3rd edition, 1963
Battles, Floyd L. The Sermons of Nestorius. English translation from the French text of F. Loof and F. Nau. Pittsburgh: Battles, 1973.
Beckingham,C. F. “The Achievements of Prester John” in Between Islam and Christendom, ed. by C. F. Beckingham. London: SOAS, 1983.
Bethune-Baker, J. F. An Introduction to the Early History of Christian Doctrine to the Time of the Council of Chalcedon. 3rd ed. London: Methuen, 1933.
__________. Nestorius and His Teaching, A Fresh Examination of the Evidence. Cambridge: CUP, 1908.
Bornkamm, G. “The Acts of Thomas” in E. Hennecke, New Testament Apocrypha, Vol. 2. London: Lutterworth, 1965.
Brown, L.W. The Indian Christians of St. Thomas. Cambridge: CUP, 1982.
Browne, Lawrence E. The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia from the Time of Mohammed till the Fourteenth Century. New York: Howard Fertig, 1967.
__________.”The Patriarch Timothy and the Caliph al-Mahdi” in The Moslem World, January 1931.
Buchanan, Claudius. Christian Researches in Asia: With Notices of the Translation of the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages. 2nd ed. Boston: Armstron, Cornhill, 1811.
Budge, Ernest A. Wallis. The Book of Governors: The Historia Monastica of Thomas, Bishop of Marga, AD 840. 2 vols. English translation in Vol. 2. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1893.
__________, ed. The Chronography of Gregory Abul Faraj... commonly known as Bar Hebraeus. 2 vols. English translation in Vol. 1. Oxford: OUP, 1932.
__________, ed. and trans. The Discourse of Philoxenus, Bishop of Mabbogh, AD 485-519. 2 vols. London: Asher, 1894.
__________. The Monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China. London: Religious Tract Society, 1928.
Burkitt, F. Crawford. Early Christianity Outside the Roman Empire. Cambridge: CUP, 1899.
__________. Early Eastern Christianity Outside the Roman Empire. St. Margaret’s Lectures on the Syriac Speaking Church. London: John Murray, 1904.
Carrington, Phillip. The Early Christian Church. Cambridge: CUP, 1957.
Cary-Elwis,C. China and the Cross: A Survey of Missionary History. New York, 1957.
Chadwick, Henry. The Early Church. Vol. 1: Pelican History of the Church. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1967.
Chapman, Gordon H. “Christianity Comes to Asia” in The Church in Asia, ed. by Donald E. Hoke. Chicago: Moody Press, 1975.
Cheriyan, C. V. A History of Christianity in Kerala. Kottayam, India: Kerala Historical Society C. M. S. Press, 1973.
Chwolson, D. A. “Syrische Grabinschriften aus Semirjetschie, herausgegeben und erlkart” in Memoires de L’Academie Imperiale de Sciences de St. Petersburg, Series VII, Vol. XXXIV, No. 4 and Vol. XXXVII, No. 8 (St. Petersburg, 1886).
Coakley, J. F. The Church of the East and the Church of England: A History of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Assyrian Mission. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Connolly, R. H. “Aphraates and Monasticism” in Journal of Theological Studies 6 (Oxford and London, July 1905): 522-539.
Couling, Charlotte Eliza. The Luminous Religion, A Study of Nestorian Christianity in China. London: Carey Press, 1925.
Cureton, W. Ancient Syriac Documents Relative to the Earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the Neighboring Countries. London, 1864. Reprint. Amsterdam: Oriental Press, 1967.
Daniel, David. The Orthodox Church of India (History and Faith). Vol. 1: History. New Delhi: Printaid, 1972.
D’Cruz, F. A. St. Thomas the Apostle in India. Madras: Premium Press, 1929.
Duchesne, Louis. Early History of the Christian Church. Vols. 2 and 3. London: Murray, 1912, 1924.
Dunlop, Douglas. “The Karaits of Eastern Asia” in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University 11 (1943-46), 276-89.
Duval, Rubens. Litterature-syriaque. Paris: Lecoffre, 1899.
Emhardt, W. C. and George M. Lamsa. The Oldest Christian People: A Brief Account of the History and Traditions of the Assyrian People. New York, 1926.
Farquhar, J.N. “The Apostle Thomas in North India” in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. 10, No. 1(January, 1926), 80-111.
__________. The Apostle Thomas in North India. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1926.
__________. “The Apostle Thomas in South India” in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. 11, No. 1 (January, 1927), 20-50.
Ferguson, Everett, Michael P. McHugh and Frederick W. Norris. The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. New York: Garland Publ., 1990.
Firth, Cyril Bruce. An Introduction to Indian Church History. Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1961.
Fleet, J. F. “Saint Thomas and Gondophernes” in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London, 1905), 223-236.
Foakes-Jackson, F. J. History of the Church... to AD 461. 4th ed. Cambridge: Hall, 1905.
Fortescue, Adrian. The Lesser Eastern Churches. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1913.
Foster, John. The Church of the T’ang Dynasty. London: SPCK, 1939.
Frend, W. H. C. Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church. New York: New York University Press, 1963.
Garbe, Richard. Indien und das Christentum. Tubingen, 1914. English trans. by Lydia G. Robinson. India and Christendom: The Historical Connections Between their Religions. LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1959.
Gibb, H. A. R. The Arab Conquests in Central Asia. London, 1923.
__________. “Chinese Records of the Arabs in Central Asia” in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Vol. 2 (1922), 613-22.
Grant, Asahel. The Nestorians, or the Lost Tribes, Containing Evidence of Their Identity. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1841.
Gregorios, Mar Paulos. The Orthodox Church in India: An Overview. Delhi and Kottayam: Sophia Publications, 1982.
Griffith, Sidney. “Theodore Bar Koni’s Scholion: A Nestorian Summa Contra Gentiles from the First Abbasid Century” in East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period, ed. by Nina Gargoian, Thomas Mathews and Robert Thomson. Washington, DC: Centre for Byzantine Studies, 1982.
Grousset, Rene. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. Translated into English by N. Walford. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970.
Hage, Wolfgang. “Early Christianity in Mesopotamia: Some Remarks Concerning the Authenticity of the Chronicle of Arbela” in The Harp, Vol. 1. Kottayam, 1988.
Hambye, E. R. “Saint Thomas and India” in Clergy Monthly Vol. 16 (1952), 363-75.
Heissig, Walther. The Religions of Mongolia. Translated by G. Samuel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Heras, Henry. The Two Apostles of India. Trichinopoly: Catholic Truth Society of India, 1944.
Higgins, M. J. “Chronology of the Fourth-Century Metropolitans of Seleucia-Ctesiphon” in Traditio Vol. 9 (1953), 45-100.
__________. “Aphraates’ Dates from Persian Persecution” in Byzantische Zeitschrift Vol. 44 (Munich, 1951), 265-71.
__________. “Date of Martyrdom of Simeon bar-Sabba’e” in Traditio Vol. 11 (1955), 1-17.
Hill, Henry. “The Assyrians: The Church of the East” in Light from the East, ed. by Henry Hill. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1988.
Holme, Henry. The Oldest Christian Church. London: Marshall Brothers, nd.
Hookham, Hilda. Tamburlaine the Conqueror. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962.
Howorth, Henry H. The History of the Mongols from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. 5 vols. London, 1888, reprinted by Ch’eng Wen, Taiwan, 1970.
Ibn Battuta. Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354. Translated and selected by H. A. R. Gibb. London, 1929.
Jackson, Peter, tr. The Mission of Friar William Rubruck. London: Hakluyt Society, 1990.
Johnson, Paul. A History of Christianity. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976.
Jones, Bayard H. “The History of the Nestorian Liturgies” in Anglican Theological Review Vol. 46 (Evanston, IL, 1964), 155-76.
Joseph, John L. The Nestorians and Their Muslim Neighbours. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.
Joseph, T. K. The Malabar Christians and Their Ancient Documents. Trivandrum, India, 1929.
Juhanon Mar Thoma. Christianity in India and a Brief History of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. 4th ed. Madras, India: Cherian, 1952.
Keay, F. E. A History of the Syrian Church in India. 2nd ed. Kanpur, India: SPCK, 1951.
Kidd, B. J. The Churches of Eastern Christendom from A.D. 451 to the Present. London: The Faith Press, 1927.
__________. A History of the Church to A.D. 461. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.
Klijn, A. F. J. The Acts of Thomas: Introduction, Text and Commentary. Leiden: Brill, 1962.
Kuriakose, M. K. History of Christianity in India: Source Materials. Indian Theological Library, No. 9. Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1982.
Kuruvilla, K. K. A History of the Mar Thoma Church and Its Doctrines. Indian Research Series No. 5. Madras: Christian Literature Society for India, 1951.
Kwanten, Luc Herman M. Imperial Nomads: A History of Central Asia, 500-1500. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1979.
Labourt, J. Le Christianisme dans l’Empire Perse sous le dynastie Sassanide, 224-632. Paris: Lecoffre, 1904.
Lamb, Harold. Genghis Khan: Emperor of All Men. New York: McBride, 1927.
__________. Tamerlane: The Earth Shaker. New York: McBride, 1928.
Latham, Ronald, tr. The Travels of Marco Polo. London: Penguin Books, 1958.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of Christian Missions in China. New York: Macmillan, 1929.
__________. A History of Christianity. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953.
__________. A History of the Expansion of Christianity. New York: Harper, 1937, 1938.
Laurie, T. Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians. Boston, 1853.
Lee, Shiu-Keung. The Cross and the Lotus. Hong Kong: Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture, 1971.
Legge, James. The Nestorian Monument of Hsi-an Fu in Shen-Hsi, China. London: Trubner & Co, 1888, reprinted by Paragon, New York, 1966.
Le Strange, Guy. Lands of the Eastern Caliphate: Mesopotamia, Persia and Central Asia from the Muslim Conquest to the Time of Timur. Cambridge: CUP, 1905.
Lietzmann, H. A History of the Early Church. English translation by B. Lee Wolf. 4 vols. London: Lutterworth, 1937-51.
The Liturgy of the Holy Apostles Addai and Mari. Urmi: Press of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Mission, 1890.
Lloyd, A. The Creed of Half Japan. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911.
Loofs, F. Nestorius and His Place in the History of Christian Doctrine. Cambridge: CUP, 1914, reprinted by B. Franklin, New York, 1975.
Maclean, Arthur John and William Henry Browne. The Catholicos of the East and His People. London: SPCK, 1892.
Maclean, Arthur J. East Syrian Daily Offices. London, 1894.
Macomber, William. “The Ancient Form of the Anaphora of the Apostles” in East of Byzantium: Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period, ed. by Nina Gargoian, Thomas Mathews and Robert Thomson. Washington, DC: Centre for Byzantine Studies, 1982.
Malech, George David. History of the Syrian Nation and the Old Evangelical-Apostolic Church of the East. Minneapolis: private, 1910.
Maloney, George. “Dialogues Between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Church of Rome” in Diakonia, Vol. 29, No. 3 (1996), 204-214.
McCrindle, J. W., ed. and trans. Christian Topography of Cosmas, an Egyptian Monk. London: Hakluyt Society, 1897.
McCullough, W. Stewart. A Short History of Syriac Christianity to the Rise of Islam. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982.
McNamara, K. “Theodore of Mopsuestia and the Nestorian Heresy” in Irish Theological Quarterly Vol. 19 (1952), 254-78 and Vol. 20 (1953), 172-91.
Medleycott, A. E. India and the Apostle Thomas: an Inquiry with a Critical Analysis of the Acta Thomae. London: David Nutt, 1905.
Mingana, Alphonse. “The Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East” in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Manchester, July 1925), 297-371.
__________. The Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East: A New Document (reprinted from The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. 9, No. 2). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1925.
__________. “The Early Spread of Christianity in India” in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Manchester, July 1926), 435-510.
__________, ed. and trans. The Apology of Timothy the Patriarch before the Caliph Mahdi. No. 3, Woodbrooke Studies, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1928), 137-298.
Moffatt, James. The First Five Centuries of the Christian Church. London: University of London Press and Hodder and Stoughton, 1938.
Moffett, Samuel Hugh. A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. I: Beginnings to 1500. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.
Montgomery, James A., trans. and ed. The History of Yaballaha III, Nestorian Patriarch, and of his Vicar, Bar Sauma, Mongol Ambassador to the Frankish Courts at the End of the Thirteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1927.
Mooker, George. “A Reappraisal of Nestorianism” in Bangalore Theological Forum Vol. 1 (Bangalore, India, 1967), 52-72.
Moraes, G. M. A History of Christianity in India. Vol. 1. Bombay: Manaktalas, 1964.
Moule, Arthur Christopher. Christians in China Before the Year 1550. London: SPCK, 1930.
__________. “Nestorians in China, Some Corrections and Additions”. London: China Society, 1940.
Mundalan, A. Mathias. History of Christianity in India. Vol. 1, From the Beginning up to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century (to 1542). Bangalore, India: Church History Association of India, 1984.
__________. Indian Christians: Search for Identity and Struggle for Autonomy. Bangalore, India: Dharmaram Publications, 1984.
__________. “Indian Church and the East Syrian Church: Part I, The East Syrian Church; Part II, Relations Before the Sixteenth Century” in Indian Church History Review Vol. 6 No. 1 (Bangalore, June 1972), 23-42.
__________. Sixteenth Century Traditions of St. Thomas Christians. Bangalore, India: Dharmaram College, 1970.
Naimak, A. “Christians in pre-Islamic Bukhara: Numismatic Evidence,” in Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference, 1994-1996. Bloomington, 1996.
Nau. L’expansion Nestorienne en Asie. Annals du Musee Guimet Bibliotheque de Vulgarisation, Tome 40.
Neale, John Mason. History of the Holy Eastern Church: The Patriarchate of Alexandria. Vol. 1. London: Masters, 1847.
Neill, Stephen C. A History of Christianity in India and Pakistan. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970.
__________. A History of Christianity in India, Vol. 1: The Beginning to AD 1707. Cambridge: CUP, 1984.
Nestorius. The Bazaar of Heracleides, ed. and trans. by G. R. Driver and L. Hodgson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925.
Neusner, Jacob. Aphrahat and Judaism: The Christian-Jewish Argument in Fourth-Century Iran. Studia Post-Biblica No. 19. Leiden: Brill, 1971.
__________. “The Conversion of Adiabene to Christianity” in Numen, No. 13 (Leiden, 1966), 144-50.
Pass, H. L. “The Creed of Aphraates” in Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 9 (Oxford and London, 1908).
Perkins, Justin. Residence of Eight Years in Persia Among the Nestorian Christians. Andover, 1843.
Perowne, Stewart and E. R. Hambye, ed. Christianity in India: A History in Ecumenical Perspective. Allappey, India: Prakasam Publications, 1972.
Philipose, A. The Apostolic Origin and Early History of the Syrian Church of Malabar. 1904.
Philipps, W. R. “The Connection of St. Thomas the Apostle with India.” Reprint from the Indian Antiquary Vol. 32 (Bombay, India, 1903), 1-15.
Phillips, George, ed. The Doctrine of Addai the Apostle. London, 1876.
Podipara, Placid J. The Thomas Christians. London: Darton, Longman and Tidd, 1970.
Pothan, S. G. The Syrian Christians in Kerala. 4th ed. Madras: K. M. Cherian, 1968.
Putnam, Hans. L’Ãnglise et l’Islam sous Timothae I (780-823): Ãntude sur Ãnglise Nestorienne au Temps des Premiers Abbasides. Recherches: l’Institut de lettres Orientales de Beyrouth, Nouvelle Serie B., Orient Chretian, Tome III. Beirut: Dar el-Marchreq, 1975.
Rachewiltz, Igor de. Papal Envoys to the Great Khans. LondonL Faber & Faber, 1971.
Rae, G. Milne. The Syrian Church in India. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1892.
Rainy, R. Ancient Catholic Church. Edinburgh: T&T Clark.
Richards, W. J. The Indian Christians of St. Thomas. London, 1908.
Richter, J. A History of Missions in India. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1910.
Rockhill, William W., ed. The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts, 1253-55, with Two Accounts of the Earlier Journey of John of Pian de Carpine. London: Hakluyt Society, 1900.
Saeki, P. Yoshiro. //The Nestorian Documents and Relics in China. 2nd ed. Tokyo: Maruzen, 1951.
__________. The Nestorian Monument in China. London: SPCK, 1916.
Scott-Moncrieff, Philip. The Book of Consultation, or the Pastoral Epistles of Mar Isho-yabh of Kuphlana in Adiabene. London: Luzac, 1904.
Segal, J. B. Edessa, The Blessed City. Oxford: Clarendon, 1970.
Sellers, Robert V. Two Ancient Christologies: A Study in the Christological Thought of the Schools of Alexandria and Antioch in the Early History of Christian Doctrine. London: SPCK, 1954.
Shaw, P. E. American Contacts with the Eastern Churches, 1820-1870. Chicago, 1937.
Silverberg, Robert. The Realm of Prester John. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1972.
Skrine, F. H. and E. D. Ross. The Heart of Asia: A History of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates. 1899.
Stewart, John. Nestorian Missionary Enterprise: The Story of a Church on Fire. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1928.
Surma d’Bait Mar Shimun. Assyrian Church Customs and the Murder of Mar Shimun. London: Faith Press, 1920.
Suter, R. “The words san-i-fan-shen in the Inscription on the Nestorian Monument at Hsian-Fu” in Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 58 (New Haven, 1938), 384-93.
Tartar, Georges. Dialogue Islamo-Chraetien sous le calife Al-Ma’mun (813-834): les Ãpitres d’Al-Hashimi et d’Al-Kindi. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Latines, 1985.
Tisserant, E. Eastern Christianity in India: A History of the Syro-Malabar Church from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Trans. and ed. by E. R. Hambye. Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1957.
Torrance, Thomas. China’s First Missionaries: Ancient “Israelites.” 2nd ed. Chicago: Daniel Shaw, 1988.
Trimingham, J. Spencer. “Mawiyya: The First Christian Arab Queen” in The Near East School of Theology Theological Review Vol. 1, No. 1 (Beirut, 1978), 3-10.
__________. Christianity Among the Arabs in Pre-Islamic Times. London and New York/Beirut: Longman/Libraire du Liban, 1979.
Tritton, A. S. The Caliphs and Their Non-Muslim Subjects: A Critical Study of the Covenant of ‘Umar. London: Frank Cass, 1930.
Turner, H. E. W. The Pattern of Christian Truth: A Study in the Relation Between Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church. London: Mowbray, 1954.
Van der Ploeg, J. P. M. The Christians of St. Thomas in South India and Their Syriac Manuscripts. Bangalore, India: Dharmaram Publications, 1983.
Varaghese, V. Titus and P. P. Philip. Glimpses of the History of the Christian Churches in India. Madras, India: Christian Literature Society, 1983.
Vine, Aubrey R. An Approach to Christology: An Interpretation and Development of Some Elements in the Metaphysic and Christology of Nestorius. London: Independent Press, 1948.
__________. The Nestorian Churches: A Concise History of Nestorian Christianity in Asia from the Persian Schism to the Modern Assyrians. London: Independent Press, 1937.
Voobus, Arthur. “Statutes of the School of Nisibis”. Papers of the Estonian Theological Society in Exile. Vol. 12. Stockholm, 1962.
Waterfield, Robin E. Christians in Persia. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973.
Wigram, W. A. The Assyrian Settlement. 1922.
__________. The Assyrians and Their Neighbours. 1929.
__________. Britain’s Smallest Ally. A Brief Account of the Assyrian Nation in the Great War. 1920.
__________. An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church: The Church of the Sassanid Empire, 100-640 A.D. London: SPCK, 1910.
Wright, W. A Short History of Syriac Literature. London: Black, 1894.
Wylie, A. “Nestorian Monument at Si-ngan Fu, China” in The Missionary Review Vol. 8, No. 3 (Princeton, May-June 1885), 184-87.
Young, John M. L. “The Theology and Influence of the Nestorian Mission to China, 635-1036” in Reformed Bulletin of Missions Vol. 5, No. 1 (Philadelphia, November 1969), 1-18 and No. 2 (April 1970), 1-20.
Young, William G. “The Church of the East in 650 AD: Patriarch Ishv’-Yabh III and India” in Handbook of Source Materials for Students of Church History Indian Theological Library No. 2. Madras: Christian Literature Society, 1969.
__________. Patriarch, Shah and Caliph. Rawalpindi, India: Christian Study Center, 1974.
Yule, Henry, ed. and trans. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1903.
__________. Cathay and the Way Thither, 4 vols. Ed. by H. Cordier. London: Hakluyt Society, 1913-16.
Yuhannan, Abraham. The Death of a Nation. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1916.
Zernov, Nicholas. Eastern Christendom. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1961.

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