Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants
| Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants |
| Autore | McCants William Faizi <1975-> |
| Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
| 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 genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
1-283-28067-1
9786613280671 1-4008-4006-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457921803321 |
McCants William Faizi <1975->
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants
| Founding gods, inventing nations [[electronic resource] ] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / / William F. McCants |
| Autore | McCants William Faizi <1975-> |
| Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
| 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 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 |
| ISBN |
1-283-28067-1
9786613280671 1-4008-4006-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781716403321 |
McCants William Faizi <1975->
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| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Waqf in Central Asia : Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 / / R. D. McChesney
| Waqf in Central Asia : Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 / / R. D. McChesney |
| Autore | McChesney R. D. |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (379 pages) : maps |
| Disciplina | 297/.35 |
| Collana | Princeton Legacy Library |
| Soggetto topico |
Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations - Afghanistan - Balkh Region - History
Islamic shrines - Afghanistan - Balkh Region - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Abbasid Caliphate
Abd Al-Rahman Abd al-Mu'min Abu Bakr Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib Abu Yazid Abu Yusuf Abu'l-Khayr Khan Ahab Ahl al-Bayt Ahmad Shah Al-Ghazali Al-Qastallani Al-Shahrastani Ali Mardan Khan Appanage Aqsaqal Ardabil Ashraf Ghani Atabeg Badakhshan Bahram (Shahnameh) Balkh Banna'i Battle of Khaybar Bayazid Bastami Bukhara Caliphate Central Asia Central Authority Dastur al-Muluk Deployment plan Dushanbe Emirate Foreign policy Hanafi Hegira Herat Hulagu Khan Ibn Battuta Ishmael in Islam Iskandar (Timurid dynasty) Islam Islamic culture Islamic state Ja'far al-Sadiq Kandahar Karbala Kashgar Khagan Khan (title) Khanate Khaybar Khoja (Turkestan) Kipchaks Majlis Maoism Mazar-i-Sharif Mihrab Mufti Muhammad Akram Muhammad Ishaq Muhammad Khan (Ilkhan) Muhammad Salih Muhammad al-Baqir Muhammad al-Shaybani Muhammad of Ghor Mukhayriq Murad Bakhsh Naqshbandi Oedipus complex Qadi Rabi' al-awwal Rustam (Haqqani network) Safavid dynasty Sahabah Samarkand Sayyid Shafi'i Shah Jahan Shahnameh Shahrbanu Shams al-Din Muhammad Sheikh Shia Islam Shrine of Ali Sufism Syncretism Tariqa Timur Transoxiana Turkistan (city) Umayyad Caliphate Uthman Uzbek language Uzbeks Waqf Yaqut al-Hamawi Zaidiyyah Zakat |
| ISBN |
1-4008-6196-9
0-691-63441-6 0-691-60544-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. The Origins of the 'Alid Shrine at Balkh -- CHAPTER THREE. Waqf in Its Political Setting -- CHAPTER FOUR. Balkh, 1599-1647: Appanage Politics and the Growth of the 'Alid Waqf -- CHAPTER FIVE. Balkh and the Shrine, 1651-1681 -- CHAPTER SIX. The Evolution of the Shrine and Its Administration -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Eclipse of the Appanage System: Balkh toward the End of the Seventeenth Century -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Waqf Administration, 1668-1738 -- CHAPTER NINE. The Nadirid Occupation of Balkh, 1737-1747 -- CHAPTER TEN. The Consequences of Autonomy: The Emergence of a Shrine-State in the Century after 1747 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Shrine-State to Provincial Capital: The Muhammadza'i Mandate in Balkh, 1849-1889 -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Waqf under the Afghans -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Shrine-State to State Shrine -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Conclusions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Four hundred years in the history of a Muslim shrine, 1480-1889 |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248342103316 |
McChesney R. D.
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| Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] | ||
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