[1] In 1492 he became the Patriarch of Ṭur ʿAbdin (as Masʿūd II[2]) and by tradition took the throne name Ignatius.
According to Afram Barsoum, they denounced him to the Patriarch of Antioch, the head of the Syriac Orthodox church, but according to the anonymous continuator of the Ecclesiastical History of Bar Hebraeus, they denounced him to the secular Islamic authority, the emir of Ḥesno d'Kifo.
[3] The identification of the abbot, bishop and writer with the patriarch was first made by Afram Barsoum in the 20th century.
An extended poem in dodecasyllabic metre, it is a guide for monks and hermits seeking the "haven of impassibility".
It is a mystical tract in three sections devoted to the Trinity, Christology and the spiritual gifts given by Christ to both angels and humans.