Lyde, Samuel, 1825-1860
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- The Asian mystery illustrated in the history, religion, and present state of the Ansaireeh or Nusairis of Syria, c2003:t.p. (Samuel Lyde) added t.p. (The Rev. Samuel Lyde, M.A.; fellow of Jesus Coll., Cambridge)
- World biographical index, WWW, Aug. 25, 2004(Lyde, Samuel, 1825-1860; clergyman, travel writer)
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Samuel Lyde (1825–1860) was an English writer and Church of England missionary who lived and worked in Syria in the 1850s and wrote a pioneering book on the Alawite sect. In 1856, he sparked months of anti-Christian rioting in Ottoman Palestine when, during a visit there, he killed a beggar.
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