History and identity in the late antique Near East, 500-1000 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Philip Wood

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Disciplina: 956/.013
• Soggetto topico: National characteristics
• Soggetto geografico: Middle East Civilization Congresses; Middle East Antiquities Congresses
• Altri autori: WoodPhilip <1982->
• Note generali: This volume arose out of a seminar series organised at the Classics Centre of Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2009 and a subsequent workshop in 2010.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sophronius of Jerusalem and the end of roman history / Phil Booth -- Identity, philosophy, and the problem of Armenian history in the sixth century / Tara Andrews -- The chronicle of Seert and Roman ecclesiastical history in the Sasanian world / Philip Wood -- Why were the Syrians interested in Greek philosophy? / Dan King -- You are what you read: Qenneshre and the Miaphysite church in the seventh century / Jack Tannous -- The prophet's city before the prophet: Ibn Zabala (d. after 199/814) on pre-Islamic Medina / Harry Munt -- Topoi and topography in the histories of al-?ira / Adam Talib -- "The crinkly haired people of the black earth"; examining Egyptian identities in Ibn 'abd al-?akam's futu? / Hussein Omar -- Forgetting Ctesiphon: Iran's pre-Islamic past, ca. 800-1100 / Sarah Savant -- Legal knowledge and local practices under the early Abbasids / Mathiew Tillier.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines the importance of the past, both real and imagined, in constructing contemporary culture in the period AD 500-1000. It goes beyond 'history-writing' in a narrow sense to examine philosophy, theology, liturgy and jurisprudence as vehicles for tradition and the imagination of a past 'golden age'. The papers straddle the Roman-Persian frontier and go well into the Islamic period: together, they push the boundaries of late antiquity' into the varied language traditions: not just Greek, but also Syriac, Armenian, Coptic and Arabic.
• Titolo autorizzato: History and identity in the late antique Near East, 500-1000
• ISBN: 0-19-991541-5; 0-19-991540-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996205834003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Oxford studies in late antiquity.