Gog And Magog In Early Eastern Christian And Islamic Sources

Author : Emeri J. van Donzel,Andrea Barbara Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004174160

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Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources by Emeri J. van Donzel,Andrea Barbara Schmidt Pdf

Alexander's Alleged Wall Against Gog and Magog, often connected with the enclosure of the apocalyptic people, was a widespread theme among Syriac Christians in Mesopotamia. In the ninth century Sallam the Interpreter dictated an account of his search for the barrier to the Arab geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih. The reliability of Sallam's journey from Samarra to Western China and back (842-45), however, has always been a highly contested issue. Van Donzel and Schmidt consider the travel account as historical. This volume presents a translation of the source while at the same time it carefully looks into other Eastern Christian and Muslim traditions of the famous lore. A comprehensive survey reconstructs the political and topographical data. As so many other examples, this story pays witness to the influence of the Syriac Christian tradition on Koran and Muslim Traditions.

Author : Veronika Wieser,Vincent Eltschinger,Johann Heiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1181 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110593587

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Cultures of Eschatology by Veronika Wieser,Vincent Eltschinger,Johann Heiss Pdf

In all religions, in the medieval West as in the East, ideas about the past, the present and the future were shaped by expectations related to the End. The volumes Cultures of Eschatology explore the many ways apocalyptic thought and visions of the end intersected with the development of pre-modern religio-political communities, with social changes and with the emergence of new intellectual and literary traditions. The two volumes present a wide variety of case studies from the early Christian communities of Antiquity, through the times of the Islamic invasion and the Crusades and up to modern receptions, from the Latin West to the Byzantine Empire, from South Yemen to the Hidden Lands of Tibetan Buddhism. Examining apocalypticism, messianism and eschatology in medieval Christian, Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist communities, the contributions paint a multi-faceted picture of End-Time scenarios and provide their readers with a broad array of source material from different historical contexts. The first volume, Empires and Scriptural Authorities, examines the formation of literary and visual apocalyptic traditions, and the role they played as vehicles for defining a community’s religious and political enemies. The second volume, Time, Death and Afterlife, focuses on key topics of eschatology: death, judgment, afterlife and the perception of time and its end. It also analyses modern readings and interpretations of eschatological concepts.

Author : Georges Tamer,Andrew Mein,Lutz Greisiger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110720235

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Gog and Magog by Georges Tamer,Andrew Mein,Lutz Greisiger Pdf

Author : Ahmed M. A. Sheir
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9786156405296

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The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades by Ahmed M. A. Sheir Pdf

This book considers the history of the Prester John legend and its impact on the Crusades, investigating its entangled mythical history between East and West during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present study thus responds to the still pressing need for a comprehensive historical investigation of the twelfth and thirteenth crusading history of the legend and its impact on the Muslim-Crusader encounters, examining various Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic accounts. It further reflects on new eastern aspects of the legend, presenting a new Arab scholarly view. This book first charts a pre-history of the legend in the late ancient Christian prophecy of the Last Emperor down to the emergence of the legend in the mid-twelfth century. Second, the work presents a historical discussion of the legend and its association with actual occurrences in the Far East and the Levant, analysing the legend history under the crusading crisis and the imperial papal schism in Europe. Meanwhile, the work considers the vague Prester John Letter addressed to Manuel I Komnenus, Byzantine Emperor, and its elaborate conception of a mythical eastern kingdom, revealing imaginative parallels on the wondrous East and legendary Eastern Christian kings in Arabic Muslim and Christian accounts of the Muslim geographer and cartographer al-Idrisi, the Coptic Abu al-Makarim and the Syriac Ibn al-'Ibri (Bar Hebraeus), among others. Moreover, the book examines how the legend impacted war and peace processes between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders during the Fifth Crusade against Egypt (1217-1221), revealing how it was mingled with Arabic and Eastern Christian prophecies at the time. The study concludes by investigating the perception of Prester John by the papal and European envoys to the Mongols in the thirteenth century, revealing how the legend was instrumentalised (and even weaponised) to establish a Latin-Mongol crusade through a parallel exploration of relevant Latin, Arabic and Syriac sources.

Author : Michael Philip Penn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520284937

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When Christians First Met Muslims by Michael Philip Penn Pdf

The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living in what constitutes modern-day Iran, Iraq, Syria, and eastern Turkey, these Syriac Christians were under Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present. They wrote the earliest and most extensive accounts of Islam and described a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges not reducible to the solely antagonistic. Through its critical introductions and new translations of this invaluable historical material, When Christians First Met Muslims allows scholars, students, and the general public to explore the earliest interactions of what eventually became the world's two largest religions, shedding new light on Islamic history and Christian-Muslim relations.

Author : Anton Wessels
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725275997

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The Grand Finale by Anton Wessels Pdf

We often hear that we are living in apocalyptic times. Wars like those in the Middle East are just more signs that the end is near. That, however, is a misunderstanding of the message of the Bible and the Qur’an. The basic meaning of “apocalypse” is disclosure, revelation, bringing to light what is happening now and what has happened throughout all of history. The “apocalypse” is not about making predictions about the future but about determining who bears responsibility for injustice in the world. In that sense, all times—including ours—are “apocalyptic,” though in a different way than what is usually thought. Since the devastating Greek conquest of the world by Alexander the Great, there have been apocalyptic insights and “revelatory” readings of the whole Hebrew Bible. The same is true of the New Testament with “Rome” as the world power then. The same apocalyptic message is confirmed by the Qur’an when the Byzantines and the Persians fought for mastery of the world. The apocalyptic message is that God will put an end to the unjust dominion of violence, money, and lies. God’s kingdom will certainly arrive, but not through violence—after all, there “is no violence in God” (Diognetus).

Author : Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort,Kees Versteegh,Joas Wagemakers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004206786

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The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam by Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort,Kees Versteegh,Joas Wagemakers Pdf

This volume provides new insights into the transmission of the textual sources of Islam and combines this with the dynamics of these scriptures by paying close attention to how believers interpret and apply them.

Author : Ehud Krinis,Nabih Bashir,Sara Offenberg,Shalom Sadik
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110702262

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Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures by Ehud Krinis,Nabih Bashir,Sara Offenberg,Shalom Sadik Pdf

In his academic career, that by now spans six decades, Daniel J. Lasker distinguished himself by the wide range of his scholarly interests. In the field of Jewish theology and philosophy he contributed significantly to the study of Rabbinic as well as Karaite authors. In the field of Jewish polemics his studies explore Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew texts, analyzing them in the context of their Christian and Muslim backgrounds. His contributions refer to a wide variety of authors who lived from the 9th century to the 18th century and beyond, in the Muslim East, in Muslin and Christian parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and in west and east Europe. This Festschrift for Daniel J. Lasker consists of four parts. The first highlights his academic career and scholarly achievements. In the three other parts, colleagues and students of Daniel J. Lasker offer their own findings and insights in topics strongly connected to his studies, namely, intersections of Jewish theology and Biblical exegesis with the Islamic and Christian cultures, as well as Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations. Thus, this wide-scoped and rich volume offers significant contributions to a variety of topics in Jewish Studies.

Author : Alison Vacca
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107188518

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Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam by Alison Vacca Pdf

This book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere.

Author : Michael Philip Penn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780812247220

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Envisioning Islam by Michael Philip Penn Pdf

Uses writings of Mesopotamian Christians to challenge modern scholarly narratives of early Muslim conquests, rulers, and religious practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004520660

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Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe by Anonim Pdf

This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.

Author : Matthias Heiduk,Klaus Herbers,Hans-Christian Lehner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110499773

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Prognostication in the Medieval World by Matthias Heiduk,Klaus Herbers,Hans-Christian Lehner Pdf

Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God’s will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the future. On the other hand, it demonstrates the firm believe during the Middle Ages in a future which could be shaped and even manipulated. The handbook provides the first overview of current historical research on medieval prognostication. It considers the entangled influences and transmissions between Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and non-monotheistic societies during the period from a wide range of perspectives. An international team of 63 renowned authors from about a dozen different academic disciplines contributed to this comprehensive overview.

Author : Alexander V. Maiorov,Roman Hautala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000417456

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The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe by Alexander V. Maiorov,Roman Hautala Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Mongols and Central-Eastern Europe offers a comprehensive overview of the Mongols’ military, political, socio-economic and cultural relations with Central and Eastern European nations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history, and one which contributed to the establishment of political, commercial and cultural contacts between all Eurasian regions. The Golden Horde, founded in Eastern Europe by Chinggis Khan’s grandson, Batu, in the thirteenth century, was the dominant power in the region. For two hundred years, all of the countries and peoples of Central and Eastern Europe had to reckon with a powerful centralized state with enormous military potential. Some chose to submit to the Mongols whilst others defended their independence, but none could avoid the influence of this powerful empire. In this book, twenty-five chapters examine this crucial period in Central-Eastern European history, including trade, confrontation, and cultural and religious exchange between the Mongols and their neighbours. This book will be an essential reference for scholars and students of the Mongols, as well those interested in the political, social and economic history of medieval Central-Eastern Europe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004383869

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Heirs of the Apostles by Anonim Pdf

Heirs of the Apostles is a collection of studies on the history and culture of Arabic-speaking Christian communities, offered to Sidney H. Griffith on his eightieth birthday.

Author : Mohsen Ashtiany
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786736642

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Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres by Mohsen Ashtiany Pdf

The third volume in this ground-breaking series, Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres, introduces masterpieces of Persian literature from these seven centuries to an international audience. In the process, it underlines the remarkable tenacity of their malleable tradition: the perennial dialogue and the interconnectedness which binds together a vast and varied literature composed of many threads, romantic and didactic, in many lands, from Anatolia and Iran to India and Central Asia. In its companion volume, Persian Lyric in the Classical Era, 800-1500, the readers of the series will have already met in passing all the mythical and historical figures who appear with far more aplomb on the stage here, with their lives narrated in detail by poets of different caliber from different perspectives. The first two chapters of this volume recount the literary history of the entire period, focusing on didactic and romantic narratives. The central chapters take a closer look at the towering figure of the poet Nezâmi Ganjavi. The final chapter takes the reader to a wider landscape tracing the footsteps of Alexander across the globe, offering insights to the cultural preoccupations refracted in so many versions past and present.