Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 232 pages)
ISBN:
9789004301429
Series Statement:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world v. 114
Content:
Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- HARRANIAN RELIGION: FROM THE CITY’S FOUNDATION TO THE FALL OF NABONIDUS -- HARRANIAN RELIGION FROM ALEXANDER TO THE MUSLIM CONQUEST -- HARRANIAN RELIGION: SYNCRETISM AND ASSIMILATION -- HARRAN AFTER THE MUSLIM CONQUEST: MUSLIMS AND SABIANS -- MUSLIM SOURCES -- HARRANIAN PAGANISM AND ISLAM -- HARRAN, HERMETICISM AND ESOTERIC ISLAM -- THE MYSTERIES OF THE SABIANS ACCORDING TO MUSLIM SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GENERAL INDEX.
Content:
This study treats the religious and intellectual history of the city of Harran (Eastern Turkey) from biblical times down to the establishment of Islam. The author starts from the well-known reference in the Qur'an and the early Islamic histories to the people of Harran as Sabians, one of the 'peoples of the book.' The author unravels strands of religious tradition in Harran that run from the old Semitic planetary cults through Hellenistic hermeticism, gnosticism, and Neo-Pythagoreanism and Christian cults to esoteric Islamic sects such as the Sufis and Shiites
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-224) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004095137
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 1992 ISBN 9789004095137
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004301429
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