 Paul Lester Stenhouse, author of Tsehai Publishers' The Conquest of Abyssinia: Futuh al Habasa, is a Catholic priest, belonging to the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Issoudun, France. His doctoral thesis presented to Sydney University was a critical edition of the Kitab al-Tarikh by the Samaritan priest Abu ‘l-Fath. His translation of this Chronicle was published by the Mandelbaum Trust within the University of Sydney in 1986.
A foundation member, and a member of the Council of the Société d’Études Samaritaines within the College de France, and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, he has delivered papers at Colloquia organised by the Société in Paris, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Oxford, Venice and Helsink. He is the author of numerous monographs on Middle Arabic Grammar, and various aspects of Samaritan and Falasha history, chronology and religion.
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