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Paul Wirz : Ein Wanderer auf der Suche nach der "wahren Natur".
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ISBN: 3859772309 Year: 1998 Publisher: Basel Museum der Kulturen

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Gog and Magog in early eastern Christian and Islamic sources : Sallam's quest for Alexander's wall
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ISBN: 9789004174160 9004174168 9786613061386 9047427629 1283061384 Year: 2010 Volume: 22 Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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Alexander's alleged Wall against Gog and Magog, often connected with the enclosure of the apocalyptic people, was a widespread theme among Syriac Christians in Mesopotamia. In the ninth century Sallam the Interpreter dictated an account of his search for the barrier to the Arab geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih. The reliability of Sallam's journey from Samarra to Western China and back (842-45), however, has always been a highly contested issue. Van Donzel and Schmidt consider the travel account as historical. This volume presents a translation of the source while at the same time it carefully looks into other Eastern Christian and Muslim traditions of the famous lore. A comprehensive survey reconstructs the political and topographical data. As so many other examples, also this story pays witness to the influence of the Syriac Christian tradition on Koran and Muslim Traditions.

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Syriac literature --- Apocalyptic literature --- Littérature syriaque --- Littérature islamique --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Sallam, --- Sallām, --- Sallām, --- Littérature syriaque --- Littérature islamique --- Littérature apocalyptique --- Islamic literature --- Historic sites --- History and criticism --- Alexander, --- In literature. --- Travel --- Asia --- History, Local --- Description and travel --- In literature --- History and criticism. --- History, Local. --- Description and travel. --- Lieux historiques --- Histoire et critique --- Asie --- Histoire locale --- Descriptions et voyages --- Heritage places, Historic --- Heritage sites, Historic --- Historic heritage places --- Historic heritage sites --- Historic places --- Historical sites --- Places, Historic --- Sites, Historic --- Archaeology --- History --- Historic buildings --- Monuments --- World Heritage areas --- Alejandro, --- Alekjhāṇḍara, --- Aleksandar, --- Aleksander, --- Aleksandr, --- Alekʻsandre, --- Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Aleksandŭr, Makedonski, --- Alessandro, --- Alexander --- Alexandre, --- Alexandros --- Alexandros, --- Alexandros, Megalos, --- Alexandru, --- Alexantros, --- Aleksandŭr, --- Александър, --- Iskandar, --- Maḳdonya, Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Makedonski, Aleksandŭr, --- Македонски, Александър, --- Megalexandros, --- Megas Alexandros, --- Nagy Sándor, --- Sikandar, --- Iskender, --- Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος --- אלכסנדר בן פיליפוס, --- אלכסנדר, --- اسكندر كبير --- اسکندر اعظم --- سکندراعظم --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Syriac literature - History and criticism --- Islamic literature - History and criticism --- Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism --- Historic sites - Asia --- Alexander, - the Great, - 356-323 B.C. - In literature --- Sallam, - al-Turjuman, - fl 842-844 - Travel - Asia --- Alexander, - the Great, - 356-323 B.C. - Travel - Asia --- Asia - History, Local --- Asia - Description and travel --- Asia - Description and travel - Sources --- Alexander, - the Great, - 356-323 B.C. --- Sallam, - al-Turjuman, - fl 842-844


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Scripts beyond borders : a survey of allographic traditions in the Euro-Mediterranean world
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ISSN: 00761265 ISBN: 9789042926462 9782758401599 9042926465 Year: 2014 Volume: 62 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve : Peeters,

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This collection of essays deals with the phenomenon of allography, taken in the sense of the practice of writing a language in the script of another language. Although by no means all texts highlighted in the essays are of a religious character, they are written in the scripts that are connected to the three monotheistic traditions stemming from the Eastern Mediterranean: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The time span covered ranges from Late Antiquity to (early) modern times. The volume contains studies on such cases as Aljamiado (Romance languages of Spain written in Arabic or Hebrew script but also Bosnian in Arabic script), Judaeo-Arabic, karshuni (Arabic but occasionally also other languages written in Syriac script), and various combinations of languages written in the Greek, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian scripts. In each case, the approach is both philological, concentrating on the various systems of adaptation of the scripts to the phonetics of the languages in question, and historical, with a focus on aspects of intercultural contact and exchange, as well as on the emergence and development of the various allographic traditions over time. Particularly important questions, discussed in several contributions, are whether specific communities used scripts of a language other than their own for practical or rather for ideological, identity-related considerations, and how these writing practices relate to the sociocultural contexts in which they functioned and developed.


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Corpus Nazianzenum.

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