The last pharaohs [[electronic resource] ] : Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC / / J.G. Manning

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780863003321
• Autore: Manning Joseph Gilbert
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-46329-2; 1-282-93587-9; 9786612935879; 9786612463297; 1-4008-3164-4
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Disciplina: 932/.021
• Soggetti: Pharaohs - History; State, The - History; Egypt Politics and government 332-30 B.C; Egypt Economic conditions 332 B.C.-640 A.D
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Egypt in the First Millennium BC -- CHAPTER 2. The Historical Understanding of the Ptolemaic State -- CHAPTER 3. Moving beyond Despotism, Economic Planning, and State Banditry -- CHAPTER 4. Shaping a New State -- CHAPTER 5. Creating a New Economic Order Economic Life and Economic Policy under the Ptolemies -- CHAPTER 6. Order and Law Shaping the Law in a New State -- CHAPTER 7. Conclusions -- APPENDIX. The Trial Record of the Property Dispute Held at the Temple of Wepwawet in Asyut, Upper Egypt, 170 BC before the Local Laokritai-judges -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Sources
• Sommario/riassunto: The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the Ptolemaic state firmly in the context of both Hellenistic and ; Egyptian history. More broadly still, J. G. Manning examines the Ptolemaic dynasty in the context of the study of authoritarian and premodern states, shifting the focus of study away from modern European nation-states and toward ancient Asian ones. By analyzing Ptolemaic reforms of Egyptian economic and legal structures, The Last Pharaohs gauges the impact of Ptolemaic rule on Egypt and the relationships that the Ptolemaic kings formed with Egyptian society. Manning argues that the Ptolemies sought to rule through--rather than over--Egyptian society. He tells how the Ptolemies, adopting a pharaonic model of governance, shaped Egyptian society and in turn were shaped by it. Neither fully Greek nor wholly Egyptian, the Ptolemaic state within its core Egyptian territory was a hybrid that departed from but did not break with Egyptian history. Integrating the latest research on archaeology, papyrology, theories of the state, and legal history, as well as Hellenistic and Egyptian history, The Last Pharaohs draws a dramatically new picture of Egypt's last ancient state.

The praised and the virgin / / by Rusmir Mahmutćehajić ; translated by Desmond Maurer and Saba Risaluddin ; with an Introduction by Gareth Jones

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788100503321
• Autore: Mahmutćehajić Rusmir <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-04-27940-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (888 p.)
• Collana: Philosophy of Religion : World Religions, , 2210-481X ; ; Volume 3
• Disciplina: 297.2/83
• Soggetti: Islam - Relations - Christianity; Christianity and other religions - Islam
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction: “Whenever Zachariah Went in to Her” -- An Anthropo-cosmological Prelude -- 1 Nothing and Everything -- 2 Between Two Places of Annihilation of the Self -- 3 The ; Oath to the Praised -- 4 Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac -- 5 Israel and Moses -- 6 The Ark of the Covenant -- 7 David and the Tabernacle -- 8 Solomon and the Temple -- 9 Zachariah -- 10 Mary -- 11 John -- 12 The Anointed -- 13 Paraclete -- 14 World Axis and Axis of Humanity -- 15 Two Mosques -- 16 The Mihrab -- 17 Becca and Sion -- 18 Covered by the Hands of the Praised -- 19 The Debt -- Postlude: Finding the Sacred Centre -- Prelude on Human Perfection -- 1 On Self and World -- 2 Departure and Return -- 3 In the Torah -- 4 In Galatians -- 5 Hagar’s Posterity -- 6 In the Recitation (I) -- 7 In the Recitation (II) -- 8 In the Recitation (III) -- 9 Witness -- 10 Patterns -- 11 Stranger and Host -- 12 Hannah and Mary -- 13 The Union of the Praised -- Postlude: The Time of the World in the Time of the Self -- 1 The One -- 2 Witness -- 3 Religions -- 4 Ascending -- 5 Historiosophy -- 6 The Hour -- 7 Symbol -- 8 The Anointed and the Guided -- 9 Redemption -- 10 Religion in Society -- 11 The Cross of the Self -- 12 Descent -- 13 The Mosque -- 14 The Sacred Arts -- 15 The Living God -- 16 Building in Destruction -- 17 The People of the Book -- 18 Union -- 19 Return -- 1 Sign -- 2 Knower -- 3 Tautegory -- 4 Knowledge -- 5 Equilibrium -- 6 Service -- 7 Truth and Symbol -- 8 Participant and Observer -- 9 Inanimate Observer -- 10 We -- 11 Intellect and Reason -- 12 Sun, Moon and Cross -- 13 Apple, Vine, Rose and Lily -- 14 Bird, Zachariah and Mary -- 15 Hand, Rope and Staff -- 16 Spear, Sword and Axe -- 17 Bow -- 18 Solomon’s Seal -- 19 Vessel and Letter -- 1 The Covenant -- 2 Height and Depths -- 3 Initiation -- 4 Laughter and Tears -- 5 The Androgynous Mihrab -- 6 Maternal -- 7 Supreme Sameness -- 8 The Shekhinah -- 9 Baphomet -- 10 Ascent -- 11 Word and Light -- 12 The Becca of Sion -- 13 The Dearest Place -- 14 Ascension -- 15 With Zachariah -- 16 With Mary -- 17 The True and the Holy -- 18 The Recitation -- 19 The City of Peace -- Afterword: False Prophets -- Epilogue: Entering, Passing and Exiting -- 1 Standpoints -- 2 Krstjani and Muslims -- 3 Disputations -- 4 Initiation and Esoterism -- 5 Clear Proofs -- 6 In Continuity -- 7 One Word, Many Languages -- 8 On Stećci and Nišani -- 9 The Praised -- 10 “The Apostate” -- 11 Witnesses -- 12 Interpretation -- 13 Listening -- 14 Memorizing -- 15 Recitation -- 16 Writing -- 17 Reading -- 18 Carving -- 19 Building -- Afterword: “Accord Everything Its Right!” -- In the Manuscripts -- Post Scriptum: “What Has Been Sent Down to You and What Was Sent Down before You” -- In the Mosques -- Addendum -- Post Scriptum: Worshipful Understanding -- In the Mihrabs -- Post Scriptum: Good People -- On the Stones -- Post Scriptum: Witnesses and Witnessing -- Afterword: The Face of the Praised -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Praised and the Virgin , Rusmir Mahmutćehajić provides an extended theologically and philosophically informed meditation on relations between the Muslim and Christian traditions, through the persons of Muhammad (the Praised) and Mary (the Virgin), as complementary bearers of God’s Word. He traces their presence in the extended encounter of the Abrahamic traditions that is Bosnia’s past and present, demonstrating how these traditions inform each other, while simultaneously preserving their difference and uniqueness. He lays fundamental groundwork for a more authentic dialogue, based on identity and difference in history under God, that is also a critique of inhumane ideologies and a modernity that has forsaken God and Man, again as reflected in the historical experiences of the Bosnian people.