Alexander of the Port/Kadavil Chandy Kattanar: A Syriac Poet and Disciple of the Jesuits in Seventeenth Century India

The Syriac World

“…Although Syriac Christianity goes back a very long way in southern India, there is hardly any evidence of an indigenous literary tradition in Syriac, though recently a seventeenth-century poet named Alexander has come to light (Perczel 2014), and in modern times several examples of creative writing in Syriac verse are to be found. One published example is a versification, in the twelve-syllable metre, of the Gospel of Mathew (Kaniamparampil 1999).…”