ABSTRACT :
This paper is primarily concerned with those aspects of the life and spirituality of Hindiyya Anne ʿAjaymi (1727-1798) that reveal a unique blending of Western and Syriac elements in an era when the Roman Catholic Church and proponents of the Latin Rite within it exerted a greater influence upon Middle Eastern ecclesiastic circles. The outer framework of Hindiyya’s own environment was the Ottoman Empire, in which were situated both her hometown of Aleppo and the rural area of Mount Lebanon, where she spent her adult years. Hindiyya’s more intimate environment was the church into which she was born, the Maronite Church of Lebanon and Syria.
Hindiyya Anne ʿajaymi, 1727-1798: a Story of Encounters, Human and Divine