Gabriel of Sinjar

Gabriel of Schiggar was a acting at the beginning of the 7th century physician in Sassanid Empire.

Gabriel was physician to the Persian king Chosroes II, to which he apparently exercised some influence. He was also a close friend of Christian 's favorite wife Chosraus, Shirin, after he had helped her, but yet to have a child by the King. Gabriel was originally a member of the tolerated by the Persian kings and sometimes even promoted Assyrian Church of the East ( often misspelled as " Nestorians ") is. Then he was excommunicated but on charges of bigamy and converted, more for political than theological reasons, the so-called " Jacobite Church," which also turned to Shirin.

Gabriel sat down in the aftermath eloquently for the " Jacobites " or " Miaphysites " one. Gabriel's hometown Schiggar ( better known under the name of Sinjar ) located south of Nisibis, was already in a rather miaphysitisch influenced region. The Jacobites won quickly in these years continued to decline, especially as the " Nestorians " had to do with internal problems, because after 608 of Chosroes no new Catholicos was appointed. Some sources claim that this was due also to the influence Schirins and Gabriel. Your probably the biggest competitor on the court was Chosraus "Minister of Finance " Yazdin, a " Nestorian " Christian, but was eventually executed.

Nevertheless, the " Nestorians " could ultimately claim (albeit with difficulty ), especially Persia sank into chaos after the assassination Chosraus in the year 628. Once in the 630 model years began the Islamic expansion and the Sassanid Empire went down to 651, also took the number of Christians from over the next few years. The Christian communities in Mesopotamia, previously represented quite numerous, went to the Islamic period under mostly.