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Rabban Yonan, the hermit-monk of Qudshanis, 1876 engraving

Place: Qudshanis · today Türkiye
Date: 1876

Engraving after a photograph of the monk Rabban Yonan kneeling with a crook-handled staff and a cross, whom Cutts describes as a learned recluse revered by the people.

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Cutts, Christians under the Crescent in Asia (1877), via Internet Archive

Edward Lewes Cutts (author); wood engraving from a photograph · Public domain (published 1877).

Rabban Yonan, the hermit-monk of Qudshanis, 1876 engraving

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