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The Human and the Divine : Aspects of Sanctity in Time and Space /
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This volume offers detailed insights into both familiar and overlooked aspects of how humans engage with sanctity and the divine in various cultures of Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, and Beyond. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific theme-whether a region or phenomenon-from Prehistoric times to the Modern era, exposing readers to a whirlwind of impressions presented by individuals who have studied or been captivated by particular subjects. Framing the individual case studies are broader presentations by the editors, who highlight key issues with the aim of reviving a multidisciplinary dialogue and encouraging reader participation.
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1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004678316
A history of the animal world in the ancient Near East /
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This book is about all aspects of man's contact with the animal world; sacrifice, sacred animals, diet, domestication, in short, from the sublime to the mundane. Chapters on art, literature, religion and animal husbandry provide the reader with a complete picture of the complex relationships between the peoples of the Ancient Near East and (their) animals. A reference guide and key to the menagerie of the Ancient Near East, with ample original illustrations.
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1 online resource (xxii, 620 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 537-601) and index. :
9789047400912 :
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How the Human Arrived in Islam and Then Disappeared : From Athens to Baghdad /
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This book argues that while the concept of the human being was a Greek invention, its reinvention was Arab before it was European. Born in Greece in the fourth century BCE, this concept of the human being disappeared at the end of Late Antiquity, before reappearing in the Abbasid Near East. It was Muslim rationalist theologians who revived it in their theodicy of a just God who can only be just by recognizing the agency of human beings in their voluntary acts. Later, Arabic-speaking philosophers gave it a space of its own under the name of 'human sciences,' in the 9th century. But a traditional theology got the better of it. Its reappearance had to wait for the European Renaissance, while retaining its Arab origins.
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1 online resource (550 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004700444
The Spatial Factor in African History : The Relationship of the Social, Material, and Perceptual /
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The authors of this inter-disciplinary collection examine the role of space in six areas of West, Central and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They demonstrate the active quality of space and analyze the ways in which people have contested and shaped space, including responses to crises. In addition, a lengthy essay re-interprets tropical African history, 1800-1930, using spatial theory. Contributors look at how people have constructed mental maps, used discourse to organize territories, and perceived social landscapes. The studies employ a tri-level approach, one that moves from specific places to regions to macro-regional or transnational systems and back again. Authors draw upon written and oral sources to reconstruct the past and employ innovative mapping techniques to illustrate spatial dynamics.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047405627
9789004139138
Scholarly personae in the history of Orientalism, 1870-1930 /
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This volume examines how the history of the humanities might be written through the prism of scholarly personae, understood as time- and place-specific models of being a scholar. Focusing on the field of study known as Orientalism in the decades around 1900, this volume examines how Semitists, Sinologists, and Japanologists, among others, conceived of their scholarly tasks, what sort of demands these job descriptions made on the scholar in terms of habits, virtues, and skills, and how models of being an orientalist changed over time under influence of new research methods, cross-cultural encounters, and political transformations. Contributors are: Tim Barrett, Christiaan Engberts, Holger Gzella, Hans Martin Krämer, Arie L. Molendijk, Herman Paul, Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn and Henning Trüper.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004406315
Human interaction with the environment in the Red Sea : selected papers of Red Sea Project VI /
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This volume contains a selection of fourteen papers presented at the Red Sea VI conference held at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2013. It sheds light on many aspects related to the environmental and biological perspectives, history, archaeology and human culture of the Red Sea, opening the door to more interdisciplinary research in the region. It stimulates a new discourse on different human adaptations to, and interactions with, the environment. With contributions by Andre Antunes, K. Christopher Beard, Ahmed Hussein, Emad Khalil, Solène Marion de Procé, Abdirachid Mohamed, Ania Kotarba-Morley, Sandra Olsen, Andrew Peacock, Eleanor Scerri, Pierre Schneider, Marijke Van Der Veen and Chiara Zazzaro.
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1 online resource (xv, 442 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004330825 :
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Animals, gods and men from East to West : papers on archaeology and history in honour of Roberta Venco Ricciardi /
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The 21 articles collected in this commemorative volume centre on animals in relation to men and gods.
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OCLC 853508284 :
x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781407311340 :
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/staffView?searchId=3442&recPointer=0&recCount=25&searchType=0&bibId=17817016
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Arabic humanities, Islamic thought : essays in honor of Everett K. Rowson /
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This volume brings together studies that explore the richness of the Arabic literary tradition and of Islamic intellectual life, from the beginnings of Islam to the present. The contributors cover an unusually wide range of subjects, including such topics as guile in the Quran, marriage in Islamic law, early esoterica, commentaries on al-Ḥarīrī's Maqamāt , Hellenistic philosophy in Arabic, medieval music and song, scurrilous poetry, Arabic rhetoric, cursing, the modern social and legal history of the Middle East, al-Kharrat's modernist project, and contemporary Islamic thought and responses to it. The volume's range reflects the enormous breadth of Everett Rowson's scholarship and his impact over a lifetime of publishing, editing, teaching, and mentoring in the many fields that constitute the Arabic humanities and Islamic thought. Contributors: Ali Humayun Akhtar, Thomas Bauer, Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Kevin van Bladel, Marilyn Booth, Michael Cooperson, Kenneth M. Cuno, Geert Jan van Gelder, Hala Halim, Lara Harb, David Hollenberg, Matthew L. Keegan, David Larsen, Joseph E. Lowry, Zainab Mahmood, Jon McGinnis, Jeannie Miller, John Nawas, Bilal Orfali, Alex Popovkin, Dwight F. Reynolds, Susan A. Spectorsky, Tara Stephan, Adam Talib, Sarra Tlili, Shawkat M. Toorawa, James Toth, Mark S. Wagner.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004343290 :
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East and West in the Roman Empire of the fourth century : an end to unity? /
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East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century examines the (dis)unity of the Roman Empire in the fourth century from different angles, in order to offer a broad perspective on the topic and avoid an overvaluation of the political division of the empire in 395. After a methodological key-paper on the concepts of unity, the other contributors elaborate on these notions from various geo-political perspectives: the role of the army and taxation, geographical perspectives, the unity of the Church and the perception of the divisio regni of 364. Four case-studies follow, illuminating the role of concordia apostolorum , antique sports, eunuchs and the poet Prudentius on the late antique view of the Empire. Despite developments to the contrary, it appears that the Roman Empire remained (to be viewed as) a unity in all strata of society.
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1 online resource (ix, 183 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004291935 :
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Classical Arabic humanities in their own terms : festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on his 65th birthday /
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The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047423812 :
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Migration and mobility in the ancient Near East and Egypt
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About the Contributors Abbreviations Part 1. PoliticsAaron A. Burke: Creating Crisis: Empire and Refugees at the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean Andrew Burlingame: “To the King, My Master”: Epistolary Evidence for Ugaritian Agents AbroadYoram Cohen and Eduardo Torrecilla: Shepherds, Armies, and Prisoners of War in Late Bronze Age Hittite Syria Susan Cohen: Mobility of Boundaries in the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant Steven Garfinkle: Mobile Patronage: Amorite Spatial and Social Mobility under the Third Dynasty of UrJacob Lauinger: Movements of Persons and Populations at Middle and Late Bronze Age AlalakhEllen Morris: How to Tell “Moving” Tales of Female Captivity in the Ancient World Jana Mynářová: Crossing Borders, Reaching Limits: Boundaries in the Late Bronze Age LevantSeth Richardson: First Causes, Individual Focus: Displacement and Inequality, Babylon, Seventeenth Century BCEPart 2. Ideas, Concepts, and LanguagesLudovica Bertolini: Crossing Life Stages: Dressing, Undressing, and Changing Clothes as Navigating through LifePaul Delnero: Going to Heaven, Hell, and Egypt: Mesopotamian Myths and Scribal Training at Amarna Federico Giusfredi: Was Hurrian Spoken in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age and the Early Age of Hatti?Anne Goddeeris: Ceci n’est pas un kudurru: Or How Adad-ēṭir Climbs the Social Ladder Adam E. Miglio: Uta-napišti’s Reconnaissance-Birds as Celestial Signs and the Transmission of Antediluvian Knowledge Kevin McGeough: Migration, Mobility, Diffusion, Social Evolution, and Culture History: How Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Theory Has Impacted Our Vision of the Bronze Age Part 3. Materiality and AdministrationJacob C. Damm: Pottery as Practice: Multilevel Social Analyses of Egyptian-style Ceramics in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant Ann-Kathrin Jeske: The Expansion of the Egyptian Administrative-Economic System in the Southern Levant: A Comparison of the Proto- and Early Dynastic Period (Late EB IB) and the Eighteenth Dynasty (LB I to IIA) Marie-Kristin Schröder: Migration and Mobility in the Archaeological Record of the “C-Group” Culture between Egypt and Kerma Sandra Veprauskienė: The Establishment of the Western Frontier: A Study of the Middle Kingdom Enactment Practices in Dakhla Oasis