Book of Main Points, Book 15

Ktaba d-resh melle

Written 687 or 688, probably in Monastery of Mar John of Kamul (near Cizre, Turkey). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

The last book of his world history, on the Arab conquests and the civil war, famine and plague of the 680s.

History · first written in Syriac

Not yet on the site. An English translation of this work exists, but we are not yet sure that it is in the public domain, or its text is not yet made ready. So it is not shown.

How we know the date and place

Date written probable: GEDSH, "Yoḥannan bar Penkaye"; introduction at https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/john_bar_penkaye_history_00_eintro.htm; S. Brock, "North Mesopotamia in the Late Seventh Century" (1987)
He writes in the year 67 of Arab rule.
Place written probable: GEDSH, "Yoḥannan bar Penkaye"; introduction at https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/john_bar_penkaye_history_00_eintro.htm; S. Brock, "North Mesopotamia in the Late Seventh Century" (1987)
The site of the monastery is not known.