• John bar Penkaye (Syriac: ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܦܢܟܝ̈ܐ Yōḥannān bar Penkāyē) was a writer of the late seventh century who was a member of the Church of the East. He...
    7 KB (914 words) - 00:01, 22 February 2024
  • few could afford it. Writing around the same time in Mesopotamia, John bar Penkaye describes the Arab conquest as a bloody campaign involving severe destruction...
    44 KB (6,195 words) - 08:55, 27 March 2024
  • Patriarch of Antioch 687 John bar Penkaye 690 Syriac Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius 692 Syriac Apocalypse of Pseudo-Ephraem 694 John of Nikiu According to...
    37 KB (4,528 words) - 05:25, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Criticism of Muhammad
    is the 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)...
    110 KB (14,094 words) - 06:03, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Iraqis
    century), Assyrian physician, known in Europe as Johannes Serapion. John bar Penkaye, Assyrian Nestorian Christian writer of the late 7th century. He lived...
    85 KB (10,802 words) - 04:20, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mu'awiya I
    equals'. According to Kennedy, the Nestorian Christian chronicler John bar Penkaye writing in the 690s "has nothing but praise for the first Umayyad caliph...
    114 KB (15,342 words) - 13:28, 29 February 2024
  • Shimun XXI Eshai Mar Thoma Darmo Mar Dinkha IV Salmawaih ibn Bunan John bar Penkaye Bosworth, C.E. (2000). History of civilizations of Central Asia, Volume...
    5 KB (448 words) - 08:24, 30 July 2023
  • Islamic world through his translations into Syriac. John III of the Sedre theologian. John bar Penkaye 7th century historian. Abu Yûsuf ibn Ishâq al-Kindī...
    15 KB (1,663 words) - 20:05, 4 December 2023
  • cavalry force, while the account of the contemporary Syriac historian John bar Penkaye describes this force as a rag-tag army of 13,000 foot soldiers. The...
    21 KB (2,892 words) - 08:25, 12 February 2024
  • the late 7th or early 8th century, John bar Penkaye moved to the monastery of Mar Bassima from the monastery of John of Kamul. In the middle of the 8th...
    3 KB (438 words) - 01:10, 5 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Syriac literature
    Sahdona (d. c. 650) John bar Penkaye (late 7th c.) Isaac of Nineveh (d. 700) Jacob of Edessa (d. 708) Theodore Bar Konai (8th century) John of Dalyatha (d...
    24 KB (2,428 words) - 15:04, 2 November 2023
  • III of Adiabene Chronicle of Khuzestan Rabban Hormizd John bar Penkaye Hnanisho' the Exegete John of Daylam Isho'bokht, Metropolitan of Fars Abbots of...
    8 KB (810 words) - 19:27, 2 January 2024
  • (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century); also, in veiled and biased form, John bar Penkaye (fl. late 680s). A fuller account of the reign of Giwargis, describing...
    6 KB (632 words) - 03:02, 11 February 2024
  • whether they wrote in the Syriac language. Aphrahat Bar Daysan Iamblichus of Chalcis John bar Penkaye John of Ephesus Lucian of Samosata, 125–after 180 – Assyrian...
    59 KB (4,811 words) - 05:44, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad
    (1987). "North Mesopotamia in the late Seventh Century: Book XV of John Bar Penkāyē's Rīš Mellē". Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 9: 51–75. ISSN 0334-4118...
    17 KB (1,924 words) - 19:09, 12 December 2023
  • scholars begin to identify the author of the works as either John of Dalyatha or John bar Penkaye. Modern scholars are in general agreement that the first...
    10 KB (1,138 words) - 18:15, 10 January 2024