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

Title: Founding gods, inventing nations [electronic resource] : 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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1 online resource (179 p.)

Uniform Title

Founding gods, inventing nations (Online)

Alternative Title

Founding gods, inventing nations (Online)

Subject

Civilization > Philosophy
Mythology, Middle Eastern
Greeks > Middle East > History
Romans > Middle East > History
Arabs > Middle East > History
Acculturation > Middle East > History
Middle East > Civilization > Historiography
Middle East > Civilization > Philosophy
Middle East > Intellectual life
Middle East > Colonization

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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