The Life of Simeon of the Olives: An entrepreneurial saint of early Islamic North Mesopotamia (Texts from Christian Late Antiquity)

The first ever critical edition and complete translation of the Syriac Life of Saint Simeon of the Olives, who was an abbot of Qartmin Monastery in Tur Abdin and a bishop of the city of Harran in the late seventh and early eighth century AD.