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History and identity in the late antique Near East, 500-1000 /
This book examines the importance of the past, both real and imagined, in constructing contemporary culture in the period AD 500-1000. It goes beyond 'history-writing' in a narrow sense to examine philosophy, theology, liturgy and jurisprudence as vehicles for tradition and the imagination...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in late antiquity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sophronius of Jerusalem and the end of roman history / Phil Booth
- Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the sixth century / Tara Andrews
- The chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world / Philip Wood
- Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy? / Dan King
- You are what you read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite church in the seventh century / Jack Tannous
- The prophet's city before the prophet: Ibn Zabala (d. after 199/814) on pre-Islamic Medina / Harry Munt
- Topoi and topography in the histories of al-?ira / Adam Talib
- "The crinkly haired people of the black earth"; examining Egyptian identities in Ibn 'abd al-?akam's futu? / Hussein Omar
- Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's pre-Islamic past, ca. 800-1100 / Sarah Savant
- Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids / Mathiew Tillier.