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Transformations of the Inner Self in Ancient Religions /
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This collection of papers from two workshops - held in Heidelberg, Germany, in July 1996 and Jerusalem, Israel, in October 1997 - is concerned with anthropological rather than theological aspects of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions, ranging from the 'primary' religions of the archaic period and their complex developments in Egypt and Mesopotamia to the 'soteriological' movements and 'secondary' religions that emerged in Late Antiquity. The first part of the book focuses on \'Confession and Conversion\', while the second part is devoted to the topic of \'Guilt, Sin and Rituals of Purification\'. The primary purpose of this volume is to convey a sense of the dynamics and dialectical relationships between the various Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions from the archaic period to Late Antiquity.
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Two contributions in German, one in French. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9789004379084 :
0169-8834 ;
Religious minorities in the Middle East : domination, self-empowerment, accommodation /
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The relationship between religious majorities and minorities in the Middle East is often construed as one of domination versus powerlessness. While this may indeed be the case, to claim that this is only or always so is to give a simplified picture of a complex reality. Such a description lays emphasis on the challenges faced by the minorities, while overlooking their astonishing ability to mobilize internal and external resources to meet these challenges. Through the study of strategies of domination, resilience, and accommodation among both Muslim and non-Muslim minorities, this volume throws into relief the inherently dynamic character of a relationship which is increasingly influenced by global events and global connections.
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The result of a workshop held in 2008 in Bergen, Norway and in 2009 in Aix-en-Provence, France. :
1 online resource (viii, 369 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004216846 :
1385-3376 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Islamic Law and Finance : Religion, Risk, and Return /
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Since banking and financial industries in countries observing Islamic law and the Shari'a are growing fast, it is essential for the West to obtain a better understanding of the interaction between Islamic law and finance. As all financial business is bound by the Shari'a, western lawyers and economists must consider the extent to which flexibility exists in the western system whereby the two systems, western and Islamic, can be brought closer together. This book presents a collection of papers from distinguishesd authors analysing the various attempts to establish a system of Islamic law and finance and it investigates the modes of operations of institutions adopting the Islamic system, drawing on examples such as Malaysia, Iran and Pakistan, ans Egypt - all of which are international and cover a large economically significant area of operations, laws and taxation systems. See Less
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1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004634800
Textile Messages : Inscribed Fabrics from Roman to Abbasid Egypt /
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The practice to supply textiles with inscriptions is well known in Egypt from Pharaonic times onwards. Nevertheless systematic studies on inscribed fabrics have been neglected until the middle of the 1990s when they almost simultaneously caught the interest of various scholars. This richly illustrated volume is a first compilation of what is known on the subject so far. It concentrates on textiles of the first millennium AD, a period of changing cultures, religions and languages in Egypt, mirrored by the Greek, Coptic and Arabic inscriptions on the fabrics. The emphasis lies on the historical, linguistic, sociological and artistic aspects of these textiles. Numerous fabrics from international collections are introduced. Further articles deal with the radiocarbon dating and technical aspects.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047418290
9789004149564
Christian Arabic Apologetics during the Abbasid Period (750-1258).
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During the first six-seven centuries of the Islamic era there was a very lively exchange between Christian and Islamic thinking. It was a period when Christian theologians of various denominations had to find ways of expressing their traditional ideas in Arabic. In the process their thinking developed. The papers in this volume represent the wide range of this field, including detailed studies of such key writers as Abū Rā'itah, Yaḥyā born 'Adī and Theodore Abū Qūrrah, as well as probably the earliest, anonymous, Christian apology in Arabic. The Islamic context in which such writers worked is also dealt with, as is the wider geographical spread of Christian Arabic thought extending to Islamic Spain.
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1 online resource. :
9789004378858
Le Fayoum : archéologie, histoire, religion : actes du sixième colloque international, Montpellier, 26-28 octobre 2016 /
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The Sixth International Conference on the Fayum, which took place in October 2016 at Montpellier, reunited Egyptologists, archaeologists, papyrologists and Coptologists whose research concerns divers aspects of life in the Fayum oasis in Antiquity. The volume contains 13 articles in English, French and German on the colonization, administration, judiciary, business life, scribal education, religion and religious communities, specificities of the regional onomastic, distinctive dialectal features etc. The time frame covers nearly 3000 years, from the the Middle Kingdom to the Coptic/Early Arab period (2nd mil. BCE to 9th c. CE), with a focus on the region?s florescence during the Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE?4th c. CE).
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ix, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9783447109772
3447109777
New frontiers of Arabic papyrology : Arabic and multilingual texts from early Islam /
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New Frontiers of Arabic Papyrology contains research presented at the 5th congress of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) held in Tunis in 2012. Like previous ISAP volumes, this one focuses on the transformative era of the Islamic conquests, although some of the articles treat later periods. The volume contains articles relevant to Arabic, Coptic, and Greek papyrology. There is also work on folk religion, astronomy, and epigraphy. Contributors: Lotfi Abdeljaouad, Lajos Berkes, Ursula Bsees, Janneke de Jong, Manabu Kameya, Marie Legendre, Matt Malczycki, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Johannes Thomann, Khaled Younes
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004345171 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Ritual landscape and performance : proceedings of the international conference on ritual landscape and performance, Yale University, September 23-24, 2016 /
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""Ritual Landscape and Performance" contains the Egyptological contributions from the homonymous conference held at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations of Yale University on September 23-24, 2016. The various articles discuss the use of ritual landscape from the Old to the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, by focusing on landscape archaeology of specific sites such as Saqqara, el-Bersheh, Abydos, Thebes, as well as Aniba in Nubia. Further contributions elucidate the interaction of desert and the Nile Valley through rock art, the depictions of watery environments in the delta and their association to rituals, as well as the habitation of landscapes using the example of southern Middle Egypt"--
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xix, 203 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781950343126
Cultures in contact : from Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean in the second millennium B.C. /
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"Most of the essays published in this volume were presented at "The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Symposium: Beyond Babylon: art, trade and diplomacy in the second millennium B.C." held on December 18 and 19, 2008 and "The Friends of Inanna scholars' day workshop" held on February 4, 2009 ... held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York"-- Title page verso.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia". :
xvii, 354 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-352). :
9780300185034
0300185030
Evolving Egypt : innovation, appropriation, and reinterpretation in ancient Egypt /
: "In February 2006, an international Egyptological conference entitled Evolving Egypt: innovatio, appropriation, and reinterpretation in ancient Egypt was sponsed by Brigham Young University (BYU) and Brigham Young University-Hawaii (BYU-Hawaii). The conference was held at BYU-Hawaii..."--Pref. : v, 124 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781407309903
Athribis (Atripe) im Kontext : die Stadt und der Tempel als religiöses und kulturelles Zentrum von der ptolemäischen Zeit bis zum Hochmittelalter : Akten der internationalen Tagung...
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The last unexcavated stone sanctuary from the Greco-Roman period, the Temple of Athribis near Sohag in Middle Egypt, remained partially buried until the beginning of this century. The focus of the Athribis (Atripe) conference in context, held from June 7th to 9th, 2022 in Tubingen, was the large number of research results already achieved from different disciplines as well as future research strands. The associated conference proceedings, edited by Marcus Muller and Carolina Teotino-Tattko, are dedicated to these results and cover a wide range of topics in 19 contributions based on archaeological, philological, technical and religious-historical approaches. The investigations deal with the excavated temple rooms, inscriptions and the recovered individual finds and place them in the regional and supra-regional context. Studies of architecture, art history and various groups of materials from the material remains provide a great variety of insights into the construction of the temple, its chronology and ultimately the everyday lives of the residents at the time. The sanctuary in Athribis is a veritable witness to its multi-faceted fate, which can be felt not only in its rooms, walls and ceilings, but also in the archaeological findings and findings.
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Publication of a conference held in Tübingen, June 7-9, 2022. :
xi, 476 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9783447122597
3447122595 :
2190-3646 ;
Hajj Travelogues : Texts and Contexts from the 12th Century until 1950 /
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In Hajj Travelogues: Texts and Contexts from the 12th Century until 1950 Richard van Leeuwen maps the corpus of hajj accounts from the Muslim world and Europe. The work outlines the main issues in a field of study which has largely been neglected. A large number of hajj travelogues are described as a textual type integrating religious discourse into the form of the journey. Special attention is given to their intertextual embedding in the broader discursive tradition of the hajj. Since the corpus is seen as dynamic and responsive to historical developments, the texts are situated in their historical context and the subsequent phases of globalisation. It is shown how in travelogues forms of religious subjectivity are constructed and expressed.
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1 online resource (900 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004514034