Shila

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Shila (Nestorian patriarch)

Shila was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 503 to 523. He is included in the traditional list of patriarchs of the Church of the East.

Sources

Brief accounts of Shila's reign are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (floruit 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari (twelfth-century), ʿAmr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century). His life is also covered in the Chronicle of Seert.

Modern assessments of his patriarchate can be found in Wigram's Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church and David Wilmshurst's The Martyred Church.

Shila's patriarchate

The following account of Shila's reign is given by Bar Hebraeus:

Babai died after five years in office, and his successor was Shila, whose name is derived from the Hebrew word 'question'. This man had both a wife and sons and daughters, and he was a proud man besides, who loved luxuries and money and was under the thumb of his wife. He gave his daughter in marriage to a certain doctor named Elishaʿ, and ordered that his son-in-law Elishaʿ should be appointed catholicus after him; but the priest Mari opposed him. Shila died after a while in office.

Shila Amzah

NurShahila binti Amir Amzah is a Malaysian singer-songwriter, actress and record producer currently based in Hong Kong. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, she began going to recording studios with her dad, a singer named ND Lala at the age of 4 and record a Pop album five years later. With the help of a famous Malaysian record producer, Helen Yap, in 2005 Shila released her second Pop studio album, Sha-Hila. She became further well known with the single "Patah Seribu" (2011) which received Pop Song of the Year and Song of the Year at the 19th Malaysian Music Awards.

She continued her singing career by breaking out to Shanghai, China and eventually won the Asian Wave. As a result, Shila received the Kembara Award (International Breakthrough Award) from Malaysian Music Awards making Shila the youngest ever Kembara Award receiver. Afterwards, Shila continued her singing career in Mandopop industry by breaking out to Hong Kong in 2015 by releasing some new singles, doing an international press conference and establishing her second own recording label, Shilala (HK) Limited. After she rose to fame winning the Asian Wave and second runner-up of I Am A Singer (season 2), she's been dubbed as Asia's Sweetheart, Princess of Music and National Treasure of Malaysia.