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The Arabian Epic: Volume 1, Introduction
Heroic and Oral Story-telling
Av M. C. Lyons, Faculty Of Oriental Studies
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The Arabian epic covers eleven of the main representatives of this genre. Each of these has been developed through the processes of accretive oral …
The Arabian Epic: Volume 2, Analysis
Heroic and Oral Story-telling
Av M. C. Lyons, Faculty Of Oriental Studies
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The Arabian epic covers ten of the main representatives of this genre. Each of these has been developed through the processes of accretive oral story-telling …
The Arabian Epic: Volume 3, Texts
Heroic and Oral Story-telling
Av M. C. Lyons, Faculty Of Oriental Studies
Häftad, 2005
804 kr
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The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The Arabian epic covers ten of the main representatives of this genre. Each of these has been developed through the processes of accretive oral story-telling …
The Syriac Version of the Old Testament
Av M. P. Weitzman, Faculty Of Oriental Studies
Häftad, 2005
477 kr
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While the Syriac version of the Old Testament, known as the Peshitta, was translated from a Hebrew text, it was, surprisingly, preserved by the eastern churches alone. In his book, M. W. Weitzman argues that the translation was put together in around 200 CE by a small Jewish community estranged …
Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy
The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market of Hindustan, 1450-1850
Av Dirk H. A. Kolff, Faculty Of Oriental Studies
Häftad, 2002
754 kr
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This is a study of an aspect of the ethnohistory of North Indian peasant society: the importance of its military labour market for state and sect formation, for social change as well as for the energetic survival strategies of the villages of Hindustan. It traces the history of the British Indian …
God's Caliph
Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
Av Patricia Crone, Martin Hinds m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
337 kr
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This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; …
The Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah
Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess
Av Judith M. Hadley, Faculty Of Oriental Studies
Inbunden, 2000
2231 kr
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Recent archaeological discoveries have encouraged scholars to reinvestigate the Israelite religion. In this book, Judith Hadley uses these discoveries, alongside biblical material and non-biblical inscriptions, to examine the evidence for the worship of Asherah as the partner of God in the Bible. …
