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Background

 * Background of Antiochian and Syriac Christianity (Studies in Syriac Christianity, S. Brock, The Formation of Christianity in Antioch, M. Zetterholm)
 * Controversies of Ephesus and Chalcedon (Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy, S. Wessel)
 * Formation of the hierarchy of the West Syrian church (Justinian and the Making of the Syrian Orthodox Church, V. L. Menze; Severus of Antioch, P, Allen & R. Hayward)

Early contacts with Roman Papacy

 * Crusaders and the Syrian Orthodox Church (The Crusades: Conflict Between Christendom and Islam, M. Moosa; The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, C. MACEvitt)
 * Council of Florence (?)

Formation of the Syriac Catholic Church

 * Missionaries in Aleppo (Catholics and sultans, C. Frazee; Muslim-Christian Relations and Inter-Christian Rivalries in the Middle East, J. Joseph)
 * Akidjan and Shahbaddin
 * Acephalous Syriac Catholics of the 18th century

Re-formation of the Church

 * Jarweh
 * Aleppan patriarchs

Late Ottoman period

 * overview of growth
 * Growth at expense of Syriac Orthodox
 * Mardin patriarchs
 * Seyfo

Contemporary history

 * Benni, Rahmani and Tappuni
 * Hayek, Daoud, Abdalahad and Younan
 * Iraq war, Syria war and diaspora

General references
Eastern Christianity in the Modern Middle East, A. O'Mahony, E. Loosley
 * The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity, K. Parry
 * The Oxford Dictionary Of The Christian Church, F. L. Cross, E. A. Livingstone
 * The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch at a Glance, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas