CHRISTIANSversion to denounce him as an apostate from Magianism and secured
his execution. Shobhalmaran was forced into exile along with Isho'yahbh
of Gadala, bishop of Balad, for refusing to allow Monophysites in his
church.7^8
Meanwhile, the monastic party organized its opposition around
Babai and Yazclin. Yonadabh, the metropolitan of Adiabene, Gabriel
of Nahr Jur, who had replaced Shobhalmaran as metropolitan of Beth
Garme (both Yonadabh and Gabriel had attended the disputation in
612), and Cyriacus, metropolitan of Nasibin, commissioned Babai to
inspect the monasteries and to root out the followers of I:Ienana. The
Monophysites fell from favor after the death of Gabriel of Sinjar, and
when the Persians began to suffer military reverses in the war with
the Byzantines, Parviz began to persecute all sects. Yii~anna as-San-
diiri, one of the physicians of Nasibin, fell from favor because of his
deception in the election of Gregory; he was restored by Shiroe only
in 628. When Shiroe also allowed the election of a catholicos in 628,
the monastic party finally captured the office in the person of isho'yahbh
of Gadala as Isho'yahbh II (628-43).7^9
The c;ontinuation of the conflict between the Nestorian factions
increased in significance after the Islamic conquest. The Persian no-
tables of upper Iraq managed to preserve their local influence and their
lands by putting their property under monastic ownership but con-
tinued to control it by acquiring positions of leadership in the mon-
asteries or in the church. Instead of taking advantage of the change
of regime to secure real ecclesiastical autonomy, the nature of the
conflict between the two Nestorian factions had the effect of recreating
the conditions of the late Sasanian period. The pattern emerged first
at Nasibin immediately after the conquest. The metropolitan, Cyria-
cus, had been involved in the triumph of the monastic-clerical faction
in the elevation of Isho'yahbh 11 as catholicos in 628. In about 640,
the enemies of Cyriacus at Nasibin brought charges against his fol-
lowers to the Muslim amir, who allowed them to plunder his cell and
the residence of the metropolitan.so The aristocratic party seems to
have recaptured the office of catholicos in the person of Isho'yahbh
78 Chabot, "Chastete," pp. 36, 255; Scher, "Histoire nestorienne," II(2), 538-39,
553-54; Stratos, Byzantium, p. 15.
79 Fiey, Assyrie chretienne, Ill, 25; Guidi, Chronica Minora I, I, 22, 23; II, 20; Nau,
"A(IOUdemmeh," p. 54; Th.omas of Margha, Governors, I, 51-52; 11, 91-92; Scher,
"Histoire nestorienne," II(2), 525.
80 Guidi, Chronica Minora I, I, 31; 11, 26.