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Founding gods, inventing nations : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam
- Title
- Founding gods, inventing nations : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / William F. McCants.
- Author
- McCants, William F. (William Faizi), 1975-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- 179 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Arabs > Middle East > History
- Middle East > Intellectual life
- Civilization > Philosophy
- Middle East > Colonization
- Greeks > Middle East > History
- Middle East > Civilization > Philosophy
- Romans > Middle East > History
- Middle East > Civilization > Historiography
- Acculturation > Middle East > History
- Mythology, Middle Eastern
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-238
- ISBN
- 9780691151489 (hardcover)
- 0691151482 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2011009295
- OCLC
- YBP 2011009295
- Author
- McCants, William F. (William Faizi), 1975-
- Title
- Founding gods, inventing nations : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / William F. McCants.
- Imprint
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-238