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12 produkter
Qusayr 'Amra
Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria
Av Garth Fowden
Inbunden, 2004
1058 kr
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From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is …
Qusayr 'Amra
Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria
Av Garth Fowden
E-bok, 2004
1266 kr
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From the stony desolation of Jordan''s desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr ''Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is …
Empire to Commonwealth
Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
Av Garth Fowden
Häftad, 1994
385 kr
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In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy …
Egyptian Hermes
A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
Av Garth Fowden
Häftad, 1993
436 kr
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Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of numerous books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, …
Before and After Muhammad
The First Millennium Refocused
Av Garth Fowden
Inbunden, 2013
626 kr
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Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not …
Before and After Muhammad
The First Millennium Refocused
Av Garth Fowden
Häftad, 2015
291 kr
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Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not …
Abraham or Aristotle? First Millennium Empires and Exegetical Traditions
An Inaugural Lecture by the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths Given in the University of Cambridge, 4 December 2013
Av Garth Fowden
Häftad, 2015
452 kr
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Judaism, Christianity and Islam - the three scriptural monotheisms, still often studied separately - are here intertwined within a historical frame. The approach outlined in this lecture pivots around the Qur'an as it emerged in seventh-century Arabia on the peripheries of the two world-empires of …
Abraham or Aristotle? First Millennium Empires and Exegetical Traditions
An Inaugural Lecture by the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths Given in the University of Cambridge, 4 December 2013
Av Garth Fowden
E-bok, 2015
437 kr
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Judaism, Christianity and Islam - the three scriptural monotheisms, still often studied separately - are here intertwined within a historical frame. The approach outlined in this lecture pivots around the Qur''an as it emerged in seventh-century Arabia on the peripheries of the two world-empires of …
Abraham or Aristotle? First Millennium Empires and Exegetical Traditions
An Inaugural Lecture by the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths Given in the University of Cambridge, 4 December 2013
Av Garth Fowden
E-bok, 2015
437 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Judaism, Christianity and Islam - the three scriptural monotheisms, still often studied separately - are here intertwined within a historical frame. The approach outlined in this lecture pivots around the Qur''an as it emerged in seventh-century Arabia on the peripheries of the two world-empires of …
Empire to Commonwealth
Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
Av Garth Fowden
E-bok, 2020
514 kr
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In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome''s prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire''s decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy …
Before and After Muhammad
The First Millennium Refocused
Av Garth Fowden
E-bok, 2013
412 kr
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A new historical framework integrating Islam into European and Asian history Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions …
Qusayr 'Amra
Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria
Av Garth Fowden
Häftad, 2018
341 kr
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From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is …
