Book Description
This book by Antonio Panaino discusses the development of the Iranian cosmographical world and its interaction with the Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic civilizations.
Author : Antonio C.D. Panaino
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004460691
This book by Antonio Panaino discusses the development of the Iranian cosmographical world and its interaction with the Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic civilizations.
Author : Jeffrey Kotyk
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 2024-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9004700838
What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam? This study offers an overview of the cultural, diplomatic, commercial, and religious relationships that flourished between Iran and China, building on the pioneering work of Berthold Laufer’s Sino-Iranica (1919) while utilizing a diverse array of Classical Chinese sources to tell the story of Sino-Iran in a fresh light to highlight the significance of transcultural networks across Asia in late antiquity.
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004164731
This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like a ~magica (TM) and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.
Author : Aria Minu-Sepehr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1451652194
Biography & autobiography.
Author : Dr. Jeffrey L. Seif
Publisher : Zola Levitt Ministries
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1930749309
Iran is central in End Times prophecy. At a time when Iran has captured the world’s attention with nuclear threats, Jeff harnesses Scriptural and secular evidence to support his case for the Iranian-Armageddon connection. After a glimpse of Iran in ancient Roman and Jewish histories, you will learn the significance of prophecy in the Jewish Scriptures and apocalyptic literature. Jeff’s analysis is based on sound scriptural understanding as well as his conclusions from two decades of academic contemplation. This easy read will provide fodder for its advocates and critics alike.
Author : Reg Pelham
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 163568238X
Most Americans are familiar with the Iranian hostage crisis that began on November 4, 1979. However, few people are aware of the chaotic events that took place during the year and half leading up to that momentous occasion. Gil Hodges, a Pan Am employee, tells the story of the Pan American team that in late 1977 wins a contract with the Imperial Iranian Air Force to construct and operate espionage sites along the Iran/Iraq border. Although the contract starts in a fairly routine manner, social order within the country soon starts to break down. Riots and demonstrations become more and more prevalent, and soon armed Iranian soldiers are required to ensure the employees can get to and from work safely. At the height of the protests, more than 10 percent of the country's population was in the streets of most major cities. A prominent French newspaper called it the largest single demonstration in history. As things get worse, Pan Am executives in New York and those in Florida are convinced that only American money can save the team if the shah is overthrown. With no guarantees that it will work, a plan is formulated to smuggle a large sum of money into the country. This money would be used to buy the teams freedom if necessary. The situation takes an auspicious turn when a Pan Am team member jeopardizes all their lives over an Iranian woman that he loves but is forbidden to marry. An unlikely alliance is formed, including the in-country Pan Am team, their wives, friendly followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini, and a cabbie who had been Gil's driver for over a year. This group was a part of a risky plan to save the Americans from a hostage situation or even death.
Author : Adolf Kaegi
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 16,29 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Vedas
ISBN :
Author : Herman Vetterling
Publisher :
Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Mysticism
ISBN :
Author : Oliver Scharbrodt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2008-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113597568X
This book explores the development of Islam and the Baha'i faith in the nineteenth century via the examination of two key reformers.
Author : Albertina (Tineke) Nugteren
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3038977527
This is a volume about the life and power of ritual objects in their religious ritual settings. In this Special Issue, we see a wide range of contributions on material culture and ritual practices across religions. By focusing on the dynamic interrelations between objects, ritual, and belief, it explores how religion happens through symbolic materiality. The ritual objects presented in this volume include: masks worn in the Dogon dance; antique ecclesiastical silver objects carried around in festive processions and shown in shrines in the southern Andes; funerary photographs and films functioning as mnemonic objects for grieving children; a dented rock surface perceived to be the god’s footprint in the archaic place of pilgrimage, Gaya (India); a recovered manual of rituals (from Xiapu county) for Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, juxtaposed to a Manichaean painting from southern China; sacred stories and related sacred stones in the Alor–Pantar archipelago, Indonesia; lotus symbolism, indicating immortalizing plants in the mythic traditions of Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia; lavishly illustrated variations of portrayals of Ravana, a Sinhalese god-king-demon; figurines made of cow dung sculptured by rural women in Rajasthan (India); and mythical artifacts called ‘Apples of Eden’ in a well-known interactive game series.