Despite their Syriac Rites, Maronites were [[Acephali]] of Parthian (Mardaite) ethnicity and by the time of Nestorian Patriarch Ishoyahb III of Adiabene (649-659), many had converted to Islam before John Maron was appointed as their first Patriarch after the 3rd Council of Constantinople in 680CE specifically in order to call them back into the folds of the Roman Church.
Abdul Malik was called documented as Muhammad the Maronite (Ibn Marwan)in the 740s.
