John of Damascus (Arabic: يوحنا الدمشقي, romanized: Yūḥana ad-Dimashqī; Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Δαμασκηνός, romanized: Ioánnēs ho Damaskēnós, IPA: [ioˈanis o...

Damascus (/dəˈmæskəs/ də-MAS-kəs, UK also /dəˈmɑːskəs/ də-MAH-skəs; Arabic: دِمَشق, romanized: Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest...

Sebaste, Diodorus of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus the Confessor, and John of Damascus. Justin Martyr was...

to Marwan I, from another branch of the clan. Syria remained the Umayyads' main power base thereafter, with Damascus as their capital. The Umayyads continued...

reward of the good-doers. — Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:82–84 In 746, John of Damascus (sometimes St. John of Damascus) wrote the Fount of Knowledge part two of which...

Damascus steel (Arabic: فولاذ دمشقي) refers to the high carbon crucible steel of the blades of historical swords forged using the wootz process in the...

is a list of Christian Church Fathers. Roman Catholics generally regard the Patristic period to have ended with the death of John of Damascus in 749.[citation...

by John Hughes Siege of Damascus during the Crusade of 1129 Siege of Damascus (1148), a failed siege during the Second Crusade Siege of Damascus (1229)...

century, John of Damascus listed eighteen attributes which remain widely accepted. As time passed, Christian theologians developed systematic lists of these...

the worldwide model of monastic life and liturgical order known as the Byzantine Rite. Mar Saba was the home of John of Damascus (676–749; Arabic: يوحنا...

associated with the city of Damascus in Syria: A native or inhabitant of Damascus Damascus Arabic, the local dialect of Damascus Damascus steel, developed for...

of Florence (in 1442) and the Council of Trent (in 1546). According to John of Damascus in his Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (c. 730) the Book of Wisdom...

Athanasius of Alexandria he is also regarded as one of the four Great Greek Church Fathers The feast days of John Chrysostom in the Eastern Orthodox Church are...

of Sardis, and in a spurious letter attributed to Denis the Areopagite. The Euthymiac History, from the sixth century, is cited by John of Damascus,...

John of Damascus (Иоанн Дамаскин) is a poem by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, first published in the January, No.1, 1859 issue of Russkaya Beseda magazine...

7th-century writer John bar Penkaye. One Christian who came under the early dominion of the Islamic Caliphate was John of Damascus (c. 676–749 AD), who...

According to John of Damascus, anyone who tries to destroy icons "is the enemy of Christ, the Holy Mother of God and the saints, and is the defender of the Devil...

Saint John of Damascus (c. 675 or 676 – 749) was noted for his work as a hymn writer; some of the most popular English hymns which are translations of his...

work, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, which popularised most of its stories. Ancient belief, attested to by a sermon of John of Damascus, was that Anne married...

differences, from as early as John of Damascus, is that Nathan is the ancestor of the Virgin Mary, while Solomon is the ancestor of Mary's husband Joseph. The...

been talking to God and that God wants him to travel to the Temple of John of Damascus in Spasov to see a holy relic known as the Kudets, which he believes...

the patron saint of music. Her feast day became an occasion for musical concerts and festivals that occasioned well-known poems by John Dryden and Alexander...

Patriarch of Antioch John of Damascus (676–749), Syrian monk and priest, also known as John Damascene John of Beverley (died 721), Angle bishop John of Pavia...

Christian-Muslim wars and a period of iconoclasm in West Asia. The defense of images and the role of the Syrian scholar John of Damascus was pivotal during this...

יְהוֹחָנָן‎. A notable example using this form is the Arab Christian John of Damascus' name, Yūḥana al-Dimashqī. Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), Arabic...

writings of Germanus and John of Damascus which appear to describe a kind of initial or moderate stage of iconoclasm. Leo reformed the silention, a type of restricted...

Palestine by John of Damascus. It depicts Theotokos (Virgin Mary) with young Jesus in the hodegetria position, and is covered with a riza. On the back of the icon...

of Damascus (Arabic: دِمَشْق ٱلْقَدِيمَة, romanized: Dimašq al-Qadīmah) is the historic city centre of Damascus, Syria. The old city, which is one of...

column. The legend of the strix survived into the Middle Ages, as recorded in Isidore's Etymologiae. In the 7th–8th century John of Damascus equated the stiriges...

Principality of Moscow. Together with Seraphim of Sarov, he is one of Eastern Orthodoxy's most highly venerated saints in Russia. The date of his birth is...