Bartholomew of Edessa was a Syrian Christian apologist, and polemical writer. The place of his birth is not known; it was probably Edessa or some neighbouring town, for he was certainly a monk of that city, and in his refutation of Agarenus, he calls himself several times "the monk of Edessa". He is now dated to the thirteenth century.John Meyendorff (1982), The Byzantine Legacy in the Orthodox Church, p. 101.Hamid Dabashi (1989), Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads, p. 14.
