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Cover illustration: Icon of John of Damascus, hand-painted by Dmitri Shkolnik. It is located in St. John of Damascus Antiochian Orthodox Church, Dedham, Massachusetts. The text St. John is holding is a pre-communion prayer ascribed to him, which reads, “Open unto me the compassion of thy love toward mankind and receive me as I approach and touch thee.”
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Names: Schadler, Peter, 1979– author.
Title: John of Damascus and Islam : Christian heresiology and the intellectual background to earliest Christian-Muslim relations / by Peter Schadler.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018. | Series: History of Christian-Muslim relations,
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