Jean Maurice Fiey (30 March 1914 – 10 November 1995) was a French Dominican Father and prominent Church historian and Syriacist.
[1] Fiey became acquainted with Syriac Christian tradition during his residence in Iraq from 1939 to 1973.
He was expelled after being accused of being a spy, other Iraqi scholars including the Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako claim the real reason lay behind his refusal to accommodate government view in his writings.
[2] Following his expulsion Fiey resided in Beirut as a lecturer in the Jesuit University.
[2] Fiey was considered for decades the "undisputed authority on the historical geography of Syriac Christians".