“…The main purpose of the present paper is to bring to the attention of the reader a new edition and English translation of the document TSMA E.3145, a fifteenth century letter by Sharaf b. Shāh-Muḥammad, the emir of Bidlīs, to the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, the Conqueror. …”

“…This article contributes to the study of Christian Arabic literature by providing, with an introduction, the text and translation of chapter 15 of Kitāb al-muršid, 'The Guidebook', by the eleventh-century Jacobite physician and scholar, Abū Naṣr Yaḥyā b. Ǧarīr al-Takrītī. In this chapter, entitled Fī anna šarīʿat al-masīḫ nāsiḫa ġayr mansūḫa, 'That the Law of Christ Abrogates but Cannot Be Abrogated', the author explains why the Law of Moses, while coming from God, was specific to the Israelites and provisional, and had to be abrogated by the perfect Law of Christ, intended for all nations. …”