TY - BOOK ID - 2456003 TI - The city of the moon god PY - 1992 VL - 114 SN - 9004095136 9004301429 9789004095137 9789004301429 PB - Leiden ;New York E.J. Brill DB - UniCat KW - Lune -- Culte KW - Maan -- Cultus KW - Moon worship KW - Cults KW - Islam KW - Cultes KW - Lune KW - Origin KW - Origines KW - Culte KW - Harran (Turkey) KW - Harran (Turquie) KW - Religion KW - Moon worship. KW - Origin. KW - -Islam KW - -Moon worship KW - Worship KW - Mohammedanism KW - Muhammadanism KW - Muslimism KW - Mussulmanism KW - Religions KW - Muslims KW - Alternative religious movements KW - Cult KW - Cultus KW - Marginal religious movements KW - New religions KW - New religious movements KW - NRMs (Religion) KW - Religious movements, Alternative KW - Religious movements, Marginal KW - Religious movements, New KW - Sects KW - -Religion KW - Harran, Turkey KW - Haran (Turkey) KW - Carre (Turkey) KW - Carrhae (Turkey) KW - Religion. KW - Harran (Turkey) - Religion. KW - Cults - Turkey - Harran. KW - Islam - Origin. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2456003 AB - 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. ER -