John bar Penkaye (Syriac: ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܦܢܟܝ̈ܐYōḥannān bar Penkāyē) was a writer of the late seventh century who was a member of the Church of the East. He lived at the time of the fifth Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.
His surname indicates that his parents came from Feneq, on the Tigris east of Tur Abdin. He was a monk at the monastery of Mar John of Kamul, and later at the monastery of Mar Bassima. Later writers confuse him with John Saba of Dalyatha.[1]
John bar Penkaye's writings provides an eyewitness account of the early Muslim conquests of his time.
^S. Brock, A brief outline of Syriac Literature, Moran Etho 9, Kottayam, Kerala: SEERI (1997), pp.56-57, 135
JohnbarPenkaye (Syriac: ܝܘܚܢܢ ܒܪ ܦܢܟܝ̈ܐ Yōḥannān barPenkāyē) was a writer of the late seventh century who was a member of the Church of the East. He...
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cavalry force, while the account of the contemporary Syriac historian JohnbarPenkaye describes this force as a rag-tag army of 13,000 foot soldiers. The...
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(1987). "North Mesopotamia in the late Seventh Century: Book XV of JohnBarPenkāyē's Rīš Mellē". Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 9: 51–75. ISSN 0334-4118...
scholars begin to identify the author of the works as either John of Dalyatha or JohnbarPenkaye. Modern scholars are in general agreement that the first...
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