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Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants



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Autore: McCants William Faizi <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012
Edizione: Core Textbook
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
Disciplina: 939/.40072
Soggetto topico: Mythology, Middle Eastern
Greeks - Middle East - History
Romans - Middle East - History
Arabs - Middle East - History
Acculturation - Middle East - History
Civilization - Philosophy
Soggetto geografico: Middle East Civilization Historiography
Middle East Civilization Philosophy
Middle East Intellectual life
Middle East Colonization
Soggetto non controllato: Arab conquests
Arabs
Greek conquests
Greek ethnography
Greek philosophy
Greeks
Ibn Qutayba
Islam
Islamic culture
Islamic thinking
Jews
Muhammad
Near East
Pliny
Qur'an
Roman conquests
Romans
ancient Greece
ancient culture
ancient mythology
ancient texts
civilization
conquerors
conquest
conquests
culture myths
ethnic belonging
ironsmithing
learned culture
medicine
native history
origin
origins
philosophy
postconquest period
pre-Islamic culture
protography
science
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the dynamic influence of the Greek, Roman, and Arab conquests of the Near East, William McCants looks at the ways the conquerors and those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social and political consequences of empire. The Greek and Roman conquests brought with them a learned culture that competed with that of native elites. The conquering Arabs, in contrast, had no learned culture, which led to three hundred years of Muslim competition over the cultural orientation of Islam, a contest reflected in the culture myths of that time. What we know today as Islamic culture is the product of this contest, whose protagonists drew heavily on the lore of non-Arab and pagan antiquity. McCants argues that authors in all three periods did not write about civilization's origins solely out of pure antiquarian interest--they also sought to address the social and political tensions of the day. The strategies they employed and the postcolonial dilemmas they confronted provide invaluable context for understanding how authors today use myth and history to locate themselves in the confusing aftermath of empire.
Titolo autorizzato: Founding gods, inventing nations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-28067-1
9786613280671
1-4008-4006-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781716403321
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