Founding gods, inventing nations: conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam
William F. McCants
Founding gods, inventing nations: conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam
نویسنده
William F. McCantsنسخه 1
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شناسنامه
عنوان و نام پدیدآور
Founding gods, inventing nations: conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / William F. McCantsمشخصات نشر
پرینستون : Princeton University Press، 2012ممشخصات ظاهری
971 p.; 42 cm.موضوع
Civilization PhilosophyMythology, Middle Eastern
Greeks -- Middle East History
Romans -- Middle East History
Arabs -- Middle East History
Acculturation -- Middle East History
Middle East Civilization Historiography
Middle East Civilization Philosophy
Middle East Intellectual life
Middle East Colonization
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انگلیسییادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.مندرجات
Gifts of the gods: the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god: cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first?: protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations: postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients": speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences