The last pagans of Iraq : : Ibn Wahshiyya and his Nabatean agriculture / / by Jaakko Hameen-Anttila.

• Superior document: Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, v. 63
• Author: Hameen-Anttila, Jaakko.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; v. 63.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This is the first analysis in any language of the religious, philosophical and folkloristic content of Ibn Waḥshiyya's (d. 931) Nabatean Agriculture. This enigmatic book, said to have been translated by Ibn Waḥshiyya from Syriac into Arabic, contains much material on Late Antique Paganism in Ir...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• PART ONE
• Chapter One: Ibn Waḥshiyya and the Nabatean Agriculture
• 1.1: The history of Ibn Waḥshiyya studies
• 1.2: The textual history of the Nabatean Agriculture
• 1.3: Mesopotamian national identity in early Arabic sources
• 1.4: Continuity of pagan religious traditions in tenthcentury Iraq
• 1.5: The Oriental Tradition of Vindanius Anatolius of Berytus' Synagōgē geōrgikōn epitēdeumatōn
• 1.6: Notes on the translations
• Text 1: (NA, pp. 209-214)
• PART TWO
• Chapter Two: Ibn Waḥshiyya and the Translation of the Nabatean Agriculture
• Text 2: (NA, pp. 5-10)
• Text 3: (NA, pp. 546-548)
• Text 4: (NA, p. 821)
• Text 5: (NA, pp. 1131-1132)
• Text 6: (NA, pp. 876-879)
• Chapter Three: The World and the Gods
• 3.1: The world
• 3.2: The clime of Bàbil and its superiority
• 3.3: Plants and the eternity of the world
• 3.4: The soul
• 3.5: The gods
• Text 7: (NA, pp. 10-12)
• Text 8: (NA, pp. 389-390)
• Text 9: (NA, pp. 727-731)
• Text 10: (NA, pp. 1031-1032)
• Text 11: (NA, pp. 336-338)
• Text 12: (NA, pp. 1012-1013)
• Text 13: (NA, pp. 1025-1027)
• Chapter Four: Religious Beliefs
• 4.1: Prophets and sages
• 4.2: Prophecy and revelation
• 4.3: Prayers
• 4.4: Magic, talismans and special properties
• 4.5: Ascesis and ascetics
• 4.6: Burials, rituals and temples
• Text 14: (NA, p. 49)
• Text 15: (NA, pp. 108-111)
• Text 16: (NA, pp. 144-145)
• Text 17: (NA, pp. 329-330)
• Text 18: (NA, pp. 722-724)
• Text 19: (NA, pp. 850-854)
• Text 20: (NA, p. 147)
• Text 21: (NA, pp. 148-149)
• Text 22: (NA, pp. 155-157)
• Text 23: (NA, pp. 186-187)
• Text 24: (NA, pp. 296-299)
• Text 25: (NA, pp. 405-406)
• Text 26: (NA, pp. 538-541)
• Text 27: (NA, pp. 750-752)
• Text 28: (NA, pp. 252-262)
• Text 29: (NA, pp. 1046-1047).
• Text 30: (NA, p. 1127)
• Text 31: (NA, pp. 1061-1065)
• Text 32: (NA, pp. 1094-1097)
• Text 33: (NA, p. 1106)
• Text 34: (NA, pp. 1160-1161)
• Text 35: (NA, pp. 1191-1192)
• Text 36: (NA, pp. 1237-1246)
• Text 37: (NA, pp. 1248-1250)
• Text 38: (NA, pp. 1288-1289)
• Text 39: (NA, pp. 1297-1299)
• Text 40: (NA, pp. 1311-1312)
• Text 41: (NA, pp. 1312-1314)
• Text 42: (NA, pp. 1317-1319)
• Text 43: (NA, pp. 1337-1339)
• Text 44: (NA, pp. 1339-1340)
• Text 45: (NA, pp. 1394-1395)
• Text 46: (NA, p. 1416)
• Text 47: (NA, pp. 1418-1421)
• Text 48: (NA, pp. 1446-1447)
• Text 49: (NA, pp. 1483-1484)
• Text 50: (NA, pp. 274-275)
• Chapter Five: Folklore, Stories and Literature
• Text 51: (NA, pp. 51-53)
• Text 52: (NA, pp. 448-453)
• Text 53: (NA, pp. 646-648)
• Text 54: (NA, pp. 1451-1453)
• Text 55: (NA, pp. 1002-1004)
• Text 56: (NA, pp. 1010-1011)
• Text 57: (NA, pp. 1196-1198)
• Text 58: (NA, pp. 1254-1256)
• Text 59: (NA, pp. 1272-1273)
• Text 60: (NA, pp. 926-927)
• Text 61: (NA, pp. 1323-1324)
• References
• Abbreviations
• Arabic Sources
• Sources in Other Languages
• Bibliography
• Indices
• Index of personal names
• Index of place names
• Index of divine names
• Index of plant names and other terms discussed in the text
• Index of translated passages of the Nabatean Agriculture.