John the Baptist in Islam
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Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā, identified Biblically as John the Baptist, is considered in Islam a prophet of God who was sent to guide the Children of Israel. He was the maternal cousin of Isa and believed by
Baby Yahya being held by two angels, late 16th century illustration from Ottoman manuscript
Shrine of Yahya in Sebastia, Palestine
Shrine purportedly housing the head of Yahya in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria
Like Yahya, Muhammad's grandson Al-Husain was beheaded, and his head was temporarily kept here, in what is now the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
John the Baptist
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John the Baptist was a religious preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Catholicism,
John the Baptist in Islam
…Yaḥyā ibn Zakariyyā (Arabic: يحيى بن زكريا, lit. 'John, son of Zechariah'), identified Biblically as John the Baptist, is considered in Islam a prophet of God who was sent to guide the Children of Israel. He was the maternal cousin of Isa (Jesus) and believed by Muslims…
Saint John the Baptist, a 1540 painting by Titian
The ruins of Machaerus at a hilltop overlooking the Dead Sea in modern-day Jordan, where John's decapitation reportedly took place around 32 AD.
Salome is given the severed head of John the Baptist. Onorio Marinari, 1670s.
St. John the Baptist Preaching, c. 1665, by Mattia Preti