Remarks about the Syriac life story of Yuhanna-ye Tāzi

The Syriac text of Yuhanna-ye Tāzi’s life has not been edited and published so far. Like many other Syriac hagiographical texts, it contains invaluable information regarding Iran’s society in the Sasanian era.While providing a brief introduction to the contents of the text, the present study attempts to approximately determine the time and place of the writing of this text. The author’s name is not known, but based on the intratextual evidence, it can be said that this text was written some time between the 7 to 9 H/13-15 centuries by one of the Hiri monks residing in the Mar Yuhanna’s monastery in the Tūr Abdin region, North of Mesopotamia.