Damascus
place · 9 works · 11 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Dimashq · دمشق الشام · Dimashq al-Shām · al-Dimashqī · الدمشقي · دمشق
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
City named in the Isaiah prophecy concerning the child who would take its strength.
next, to take the strength of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria against the king of the Assyrians.
and Damascus was formerly reckoned to Arabia, before it was transcribed into Syrophoenicia by the distinction of the Syrias — whose strength then Christ received, by receiving its insignia, namely gold and perfume.
For when in David Christ is sung as girded with a sword upon his thigh, or in Isaiah as receiving the spoils of Samaria and the strength of Damascus, you truly hammer him out a visible warrior too.
Letters
City toward which Saul was traveling when Christ addressed him.
"—when he was running to Damascus, wishing to bind together the disciples of Christ.
Protrepticus
City shown by Artaxerxes, along with Sardis, to reverence the statue of Aphrodite Anaitis.
After many cycles of years, however, they too came to reverence statues of human form, as Berossus shows in the third book of his Chaldaic Affairs, this having been introduced by Artaxerxes son of Darius son of Ochus, who first set up the statue of Aphrodite Anaïtis in Babylon and Susa and Ecbatana, and showed the Persians and Bactrians and Damascus and Sardis to reverence it.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Damascus, where the journal al-Muqtabas came out and where the author signed and dated his preface in Rajab 1328.
It was published in issues 1 and 2 of the fifth volume of the journal al-Muqtabas, which comes out in Dimashq;
Dimashq, 3 Rajab al-Fard, the year 1328 Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
A city of the Islamic world whose name furnished the toponymic surname al-Dimashqī, cited as evidence for the last stage in Zaydan's sequence of Arab naming.
And when the solidarity of lineage (*ʻaṣabīyah*) weakened among them they named themselves in relation to the lands, as al-Dimashqī, al-Baghdādī, al-Baṣrī, al-Bukhārī, al-Naysābūrī and others — so that the survival of some twenty-odd of the ancient tribes under the names of animals is nothing strange.
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Syrian city named as the place of al-Farabi's death.
He was born at Fārāb in the districts of Khurāsān in the year 260, and died at Dimashq of Shām in the year 339 A.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The city of Damascus, given in the colophon as the place from which the author signs
Dimashq al-Shām:
Adversus Judaeos
City whose 'power' Isaiah prophesies the child will take.
Let it be believed that those eastern Magi honoured the infancy of Christ as king with gold and frankincense, and the infant received the power of Damascus without battle and arms.
De Baptismo
The city to which the blinded Paul is sent, where he is instructed to be baptized.
And this is what the Lord had commanded him in that stroke of blindness, saying, Rise and enter Damascus;