Religious Culture in Late Antique Arabia : : Selected Studies on the Late Antique Religious Mind /

Religious Culture in Late Antique Arabia : : Selected Studies on the Late Antique Religious Mind / / ed. by Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Kirill Dmitriev.

This volume explores aspects of religious culture in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula across Late Antiquity - the period of dynamic and historically crucial developments, culminating in the emergence of Islam. While it would be impossible to provide an exhaustive examination of th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Breyer, Francis,
Dmitriev, Kirill,
Fisher, Greg,
Guidetti, Mattia,
Horn, Cornelia,
Klein, Konstantin M.,
Paoli, Bruno,
Robin, Christian Julien,
Tamcke, Martin,
HerausgeberIn:
Dmitriev, Kirill,
Toral-Niehoff, Isabel,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Islamic History and Thought
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Physical Description:1 online resource (379 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. RITUAL AND THEOLOGICAL ASPECTS
  • THE SILENCE OF THE GODS. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE DESTRUCTION OF PAGAN TEMPLES, SHRINES AND STATUES IN THE LATE ANTIQUE EAST (FROM CONSTANTINE TO MUḤAMMAD)
  • THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEOLOGICAL TEACHING AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE BY THE EAST-SYRIAN CHRISTIANS IN QATAR (SIXTH - SEVENTH CENTURIES)
  • II. RE-INVESTIGATING THE TEXTS OF EARLY AND CLASSICAL ARABIC POETRY
  • GLORY AND IMMORTALITY: THE MOTIF OF MONUMENTUM AERE PERENNIUS BY SAMAWʾAL B. ʿĀDIYĀʾ
  • TRACING THE RECEPTION OF THE PROTOEVANGELIUM OF JAMES IN LATE ANTIQUE ARABIA: THE CASE OF THE POETRY OF UMAYYA IBN ABĪ AṢ-ṢALT AND ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE QURAN
  • TRADERS, INNKEEPERS AND CUPBEARERS: FOREIGNERS AND PEOPLE OF THE BOOK IN ARABIC WINE POETRY
  • III. RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY
  • FROM MAVIA TO AL-MUNDHIR: ARAB CHRISTIANS AND ARAB TRIBES IN THE LATE ANTIQUE ROMAN EAST
  • INCLUSION AND SECLUSION IN LATE ANTIQUE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT STRATEGIES IN SYRIA AND PALESTINE
  • IV. PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF SOUTH ARABIA
  • ALTSÜDARABISCHE KULTE IM VORCHRISTLICHEN ABESSINIEN
  • LES ÉVOLUTIONS DU CALENDRIER DANS LE ROYAUME DE ḤIMYAR : QUELQUES HYPOTHÈSES

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