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Founding gods, inventing nations conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam /

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Main Author: McCants, William Faizi, 1975-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Mythology, Middle Eastern.
Greeks > Middle East > History.
Romans > Middle East > History.
Arabs > Middle East > History.
Acculturation > Middle East > History.
Civilization > Philosophy.
Middle East > Civilization > Historiography.
Middle East > Civilization > Philosophy.
Middle East > Intellectual life.
Middle East > Colonization.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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