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DamascusדמשקSyria
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Damascus
Damascus, the capital of Syria, is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It was the seat of the Aramean kingdom of Aram-Damascus and later a Roman city. According to the Book of Acts, Ananias received the newly converted Saul (Paul) there, and the city remains the seat of several Eastern churches. Damascus was the capital of the Umayyad caliphate from 661 to 750, and under the Seljuks, Ayyubids and Mamluks its many madrasas made it a leading centre of Islamic learning; it was under Ottoman rule from 1516. Jews lived there from at least Roman times, and the kabbalist Hayyim Vital settled in the city in 1594.
In Damascus at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Samuel Vital’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
In the same tradition
Chaim Vital, Josiah ben Joseph Pinto, Yashar of Candia, Shabbetai Tzvi, Yeshua Shababo
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