The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran

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BRILL, 1992 - 232 עמודים
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.

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Harranian Religion from the Citys Foundation
19
Harranian Religion from Alexander to the Muslim
44
Survival and Continuity
54
Harranian Religion Syncretism and Assimilation
74
Harran After the Muslim Conquest Muslims
94
Harran and the Identity of the Harranians
100
Muslim Sources
124
Harranian Paganism and Islam
144
Evidence for a Planetary Cult in the Catalog
159
Harran and the Hermetic Tradition
169
Harran and the Esoteric Sciences
175
The Brethren of Purity and the Harranians
181
Conclusions
188
The Mysteries of the House of the Bughadharis
203
The Aim of the Sage
213
General Index
225

Traditional Worship in the Catalog and the Chronology
152

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מידע על המחבר (1992)

Tamara M. Green is Professor in the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies at Hunter College, The City University of New York.

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