MALOOF
MALOOF
Maloof,
The Ghassani Legacy THE 600-PAGE HARDBOUND VOLUME OF OUR
AUTHOR: GEORGE HANNA MALOUF
THIS VOLUME TRACES THE MALOOF FAMILY TO BIBLICAL DAYS AND TO THE ANCIENT GHASSANID CHRISTIANS WHO RULED THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST REGION AS PHYLARQUES, OR GOVERNOR KINGS, UNDER THE GREEKS AND ROMANS FROM A.D. 37 TO A.D. 636.
ALL IN ALL THERE WERE 32 GHASSANID KINGS (THE FIRST OF THESE WAS JAFNA WHO DEFEATED THE DOJO'EM TRIBES AND RULED IN A.D. 37; THE LAST OF THESE WAS JABLAT VI, WHO FLED WITH 500 OF HIS PEOPLE TO BYZANTIUM IN A.D. 636 BECAUSE OF THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST.
THE GHASSANIDS WERE AMONG THE FIRST CHRISTIANS; THEY BUILT AND MANNED THE EARLY CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES, AND HELPED TO PROMOTE CHRISTIANITY IN THE MIDDLE-EAST AND THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
A SON OF ONE OF THE GHASSANI KINGS, MARCUS FEYRUS PHILIPPUS, BECAME A ROMAN EMPEROR (A.D. 245-249) AND WAS KNOWN AS PHILIP, THE ARAB . HE WAS THE FIRST EMPEROR TO PROMOTE CHRISTIANITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
THE GHASSANIDS CONTINUED TO SERVE AS THE FOREFRONT EXTENSION OF THE ROMANS AND THE GREEKS IN THEIR WARS AGAINST THE PERSIANS AND THE BARBARIAN MONGOLS (GHENGIS KHAN, HOLACO, AND TIMURLANE INVADED THESE CONQUERED TERRITORIES FROM TIME TO TIME AND CAUSED EXTENSIVE DEVASTATION). THE GHASSANID LANDS FORMED THE BUFFER ZONE AND THE EASTERN BOUNDARIES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
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Last Updated February 2, 2000
by George Hanna Malouf