The city of the moon god : religious traditions of Harran /
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Language: English
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Leiden ; New York :
E.J. Brill,
1992.
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,
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Call Number: BL2320 .G74 1992
Table of Contents:
- •Ch. 1. •Harranian Religion: from the City's Foundation to the Fall of Nabonidus. •Historical backgrounds: 2000-539 B.C.E. •Harranian Religion. •Introduction. •The Moon God. •The Moon God as Fertility Deity. •Fertility and the Underworld. •The Moon God and the Demonic World. •The "Lamp of Heaven" and Prophecy. •The Moon God and the Power of Kings. •The Moon, Astral Religion and Astrology in Mesopotamia •Ch. 2. •Harranian Religion: from Alexander to the Muslim Conquest. •Historical backgrounds: 539 B.C.E. - 640 C.E. •Alexander the Great and the Seleucids. •Parthians and Arabs. •Harran in the Roman Period (65 B.C.E. - 363 C.E.). •From Julian to the Muslim Conquest (363-639 C.E.). •The Religion of Harran: Survival and Continuity. •Bath Nikkal, Taratha and al-Uzza. •The Moon and the Sun. •The Gods at Sumatar Harabesi. •My Lord with His Dogs •Ch. 3. •Harranian Religion: Syncretism and Assimilation. •The Identification of Traditions. •Language and Texts. •Christianity at Edessa. •Persians and Semites. •Greeks and the Near East. •Greek Philosophers and the Traditions of Wisdom. •Hermes Trismegistus and the Hermetic Tradition •Ch. 4. •Harran After the Muslim Conquest: Muslims and Sabians. •Historical Backgrounds: 640-1271 C.E. •Harran and the Identity of the Harranians. •Introduction. •The Sabians of the Quran: Chwolsohn and his critics •Ch. 5. •Muslim Sources. •Ilm and Fiqh. •Kalam and Falsafah. •Kalam and Esoteric Islam. •The Writing of History •Ch. 6. •Harranian Paganism and Islam. •The Calendars of the Catalog and the Chronology. •Traditional Worship in the Catalog and the Chronology. •The Moon God and Other Male Deities. •al-Uzza, Taratha and Bath Nikkal. •Evidence for a Planetary Cult in the Catalog •Ch. 7. •Harran, Hermeticism and Esoteric Islam. •Greek Philosophy and Harran. •Harran and the Hermetic Tradition. •Harran and the Esoteric Sciences. •Astrology. •Alchemy. •The "Brethren of Purity" and the Harranians •Ch. 8. •The Mysteries of the Sabians According to Muslim Sources. •The Catalog of Ibn al-Nadim. •The "Mystery to the North" •The Mysteries of the North and Mesopotamian Demonology. •The Mysteries of the House of the Bughadharis. •The Mandaeans and the Sabian Mysteries. •The "Brethren of Purity" and the Sabian Mysteries. •The Aim of the Sage. •Masudi.