The pearlers we meet in this book were early monks of Syria,
Mesopotamia (Iraq), and Persia (Iran), They saw themselves as
pearl-divers and pearl-merchants searching, through asceticism and
prayer, for the precious pearls of mystical experience. Their quest
led them into the wilderness, to a state of silent solitude in
remote caves and hermitages. Working from Syriac manuscripts in the
British Museum and the Vatican Library, and from the Greek
monastery of Saint Catherine in the wilderness of Sinai and the
Coptic monastery of the Syrians (Der es-Suriani) in the Egyptian
desert, Brian E. Colless has produced a volume which draws modern
readers into this little known world.
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