Tuma Al-Kufurtabi was a Maronite bishop, writer, translator and philosopher from Kufurtab in northern Syria. Tuma was considered to be one of the staunchest defenders of the Maronite teachings against its antagonists, as demonstrated by the aggressive letters exchanged between him and the Patriarch of Antioch. Among his notable works are Al-Makalat Al-Ashara (The Ten Articles), which defends the Maronite teachings, as well as a translation of Youhanna Maron’s Al-Huda wa Al-Namous (The Right Path and the Law), a collection of articles about dogmas and denominations.