Barsisa, ("the man of priestly regalia", from Aramaic bar, "son", and ṣīṣa, "gold plate", referring specifically to the high priest's breastplate) in Islamic theology, was an ascetic who succumbed to the Devil's temptations and denied God.
Barsisa, ("the man of priestly regalia", from Aramaic bar, "son", and ṣīṣa, "gold plate", referring specifically to the high priest's breastplate) in Islamic theology, was an ascetic who succumbed to the Devil's temptations and denied God.
The fable passed into European literary culture after its publication under the title "History of Santon Barsisa" in the British periodical The Guardian in 1713. Its anonymous contributor writes that he found the story in a volume of "Turkish Tales" and, worried that its Islamic origin may cause offense, explains that "the moral to be drawn from it is entirely Christian". In this form the fable went on to inspire Matthew Gregory Lewis's 1796 Gothic novel The Monk.
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