Shubhalishoʿ (Arabic: Shuwḥālīshōʿ[1])[a] was an East Syriac monk, missionary and martyr of the late 8th century.
[4] Shortly after 780, Shubhalishoʿ was commissioned by the patriarch to lead a team of monks to evangelise the regions of Daylam and Gilan.
[6] According to Thomas, he went "with exceedingly great splendour, for barbarian nations need to see a little worldly pomp and show to attract them ... to Christianity".
"[4] Thomas says that "he taught and baptised many towns and numerous villages", built churches, established ministers, ordered the teaching of the Psalms and hymns and went "deep inland to the farthest end of the East.
He names as one of his sources "the letter which some merchants and secretaries of the kings, who had penetrated as far as [those countries of the Dailamites and Gilanians] for the sake of commerce and of affairs of State, wrote to Mar Timothy.