Joshua the Stylite (also spelled Yeshu StyliteWitold Witakowski Chronicle: known also as the Chronicle of Zuqnin, Liverpool University Press, 1996, p. xxi and Ieshu Stylite) is the attributed author of a chronicle which narrates the history of the war between the Later Roman Empire and Persians between 502 and 506, and which is one of the earliest and best historical documents preserved in Syriac.