The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran

الغلاف الأمامي
BRILL, 01‏/09‏/2015 - 240 من الصفحات
This study treats the religious and intellectual history of the city of Harran (Eastern Turkey) from biblical times down to the establishment of Islam. The author starts from the well-known reference in the Qur'an and the early Islamic histories to the people of Harran as Sabians, one of the 'peoples of the book.'
The author unravels strands of religious tradition in Harran that run from the old Semitic planetary cults through Hellenistic hermeticism, gnosticism, and Neo-Pythagoreanism and Christian cults to esoteric Islamic sects such as the Sufis and Shiites.
 

المحتوى

Introduction
1
Harranian Religion from the Citys Foundation to the Fall of Nabonidus
19
Harranian Religion from Alexander to the Muslim Conquest
44
Harranian Religion Syncretism and Assimilation
74
Harran After the Muslim Conquest Muslims and Sabians
94
Muslim Sources
124
Harranian Paganism and Islam
144
Harran Hermeticism and Esoteric Islam
162
The Mysteries of the Sabians According to Muslim Sources
191
Selected Bibliography
218
General Index
225
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نبذة عن المؤلف (2015)

Tamara M. Green is Professor in the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies at Hunter College, The City University of New York.

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