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Johannes Damascenus
[ dam-uh-see-nuhs ]
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To this era belong the names of Alfonso the Wise, King of Castile; of Isaac Beimiram, the son of Solomon the physician; of Hali Abbas, the scholar of Abimeher Moyses, the son of Sejar; of Aben Sina, better known as Avicenna, and sometimes called Abohali; of Averroes of Cordova, surnamed the Commentator; of Rasis, who is also called Almanzor and Albumasar; and of John of Damascus, whose name has been latinized into Johannes Damascenus.
The work was afterwards attributed to Johannes Damascenus, who died in 760.
Apart from these points and a few others of less consequence, the work, in its formulæ, exhibits a type which remained pretty constant in the West down to the time of Augustine, or, till the adoption of Johannes Damascenus' dogmatic.
John, exarch of Bulgaria, who lived in the same century, translated the books of Johannes Damascenus into Slavic.
“Johannes Damascenus” is added after St. Augustin in both.
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