Essays about: "Liturgy of the hours"
Found 3 essays containing the words Liturgy of the hours.
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1. The development of the night office in the Šḥimō according to the manuscripts of Mor Gabriel monastery (1474-1900) : A study in liturgical change
University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studierAbstract : This thesis tries to answer the question of how the night office sluthō d-lilyō has developed in the Syrian Orthodox Antiochian tradition as it is expressed in the Syrian Orthodox prayerbook of ܫܚܝܡܐ Šḥimō - which is the prayerbook used on ordinary weekdays and Saturdays throughout the liturgical year except for the great Lent. One of the main liturgical scholars of the 20th century, Robert F. READ MORE
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2. From Dawn to Dusk: studying the origin of the Islamic fivefold daily liturgy in the Qur’ān
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskapAbstract : Despite prayer being one of the most central tenets of Islam, this subject has drawn the attention of surprisingly little scholarship, especially when it comes to studying its origin against pre-Islamic analogues. Thus, this thesis proposes a reconstruction of the very early history of the fivefold daily Islamic liturgy, attempting also to weigh the extent of the influence that pre-Islamic religions, primarily Middle Eastern Christianity and Judaism, might have had in its development. READ MORE
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3. The Shhimo of 1890 and 1934 - Uniformity or diversity?
University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studierAbstract : The ܫܚܝܡܐ Shhimo is the prayer book for normal weekdays of the Syrian Orthodox Church and it was officially printed for the first time in Dayro d-Kurkmo (Dayr Al-Zafaran) in 1890 with a printing press that Patriarch Ignatius Peter IV (+ 1894) had received in 1874 thanks to his visit to London and the Anglican Church. Prior to 1890 Shhimo was a diverse tradition expressed with different manuscripts in different monasteries showing a diverse use of different prayers and costumes. READ MORE
