![]() ![]() John does indeed show knowledge of the Quran, which he criticizes harshly. It was his father’s desire for him to “learn not only the books of the Muslims, but those of the Greeks as well.” From this it has been suggested that John may have grown up bilingual. John was raised in Damascus, and during his adolescence, John associated with the future Umayyad caliph Yazid I and the Taghlibi Christian court poet al-Akhtal. 675, Damascus-died December 4, 749), near Jerusalem was an Eastern monk and theological doctor of the Greek and Latin churches whose treatises on the veneration of sacred images placed him in the forefront of the 8th-century Iconoclastic Controversy and whose theological synthesis made him a preeminent intermediary between Greek and medieval Latin culture. ![]() John of Damascus, also called Saint John Damascene, Latin Johannes Damascenus, (born c. ![]()
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