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Beth Qatraye

Beth Qatraye was a historical region in northeastern Arabia and the Persian Gulf, and was a major site for the history of Christianity in Eastern Arabia and pre-Islamic Arabian Christianity, in the sphere of influence of Sasanian Arabia. Its name means "region of the Qataris" in Syriac, and Syriac sources also refer to its communities as "the islands" (gazrāthā). In late antiquity and the early Islamic period, it formed an important area of the Church of the East, whose communities occupied towns, coastal districts, and islands along the southern Persian Gulf. Beth Qatraye was the home of a large population of Syriac Christians, who used a local vernacular language called Qatrayith (literally "in Qatari"), although they wrote in Syriac. Most of the evidence is from the seventh century, when Beth Qatraye became a literary center for Eastern Christianity and produced several Christian authors. Among them are Isaac of Qatar, Dadisho Qatraya, Gabriel of Qatar, Gabriel Arya and Ahob of Qatar.

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