Life of Gabriel of Qartmin
Life of Gabriel of Qartmin is a Syriac 8th-century biography of Gabriel of Beth Qustan, Bishop of Tur Abdin, which provides a glimpse into the Middle East of the 7th century.
The quote below provides an example of the Dhimmi agreements of Christians during the Arab conquests.
Robert Hoyland argues that, as the use of the wooden gong and chanting before a bier did not become common place until the eighth century, this account must be of a later composition, and belongs to that genre of documents, which sought to defend Christian communities against their Muslim overlords by fabricating authoritative Muslim-Christian treaties and attributing them to famous Muslim figures.