[dila813]

"The Fount of Knowledge", St. John Damascene is a book that I have found has disappeared from public libraries across the country. My local library doesn't even have a reference record of this important historical religious text.

I find this disturbing.

Much of what it contains is offensive to the Modern Politically Correct sensibilities.

I am interested in finding scholarly works on this work or a work I lost track of....

I recall a work that I can't locate anymore that referenced this Saint and others descriptions of Islam being a creation of the Persian Empire to combat Christianity that was perceived Roman conspiracy to gain influence over their population. Constructed to be a firewall against Rome, it was conceived for strategic political purposes.

[sauropod]

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[dila813]

I recall 30 years ago reading a work that claimed Muhammad was a Persian General that went to a monastery in Syria and studied there with the monks till they threw him out.

The story was related to the ancient author through a letter describing the encounter years after the encounter and the rise of Islam.

I would love to find this again.

[BeadCounter]

Great read, bookmark.

[BeadCounter]

My friend was saying something about Dante talking about Mohammed.

[WildHighlander57]

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[Kolokotronis]

When I was a kid in Greek school at church, a very long time ago, we were taught that Mohammedanism was indeed a sort of Christian/Jewish heresy, the Jewish part coming from the Jewish tribes in the Arabian peninsula and the Christian part coming from heretical Nestorian monks who had several monasteries down there. The weed of heresy always, always, always bears bitter fruit!