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An expedition from the University of Chicago excavated the site of Bismaya (ancient Adab) from December 24, 1903, until late June 1905. The excavations were directed first by Edgar J. Banks and then, briefly, by Victor S. Persons. Over 1,000 artifacts, many of them early cuneiform documents, were sent to Chicago, where they are now housed in the Oriental Institute Museum.The results of the Bismaya excavations were never properly published, and most of the material was never published at all. Banks wrote a lively and highly readable popular account, Bismya, or the Lost City of Adab, that appeared in 1912 and gave the impression that his field methods were considerably less than satisfactory. However, that was not the case. Banks kept a careful field diary, complete with highly accurate sketches, and sent detailed weekly reports, lavishly illustrated with his own drawings, back to Chicago. These materials show that he excavated a mid-third-millennium BC temple and discovered some of the world’ s first historical inscriptions incised on stone vessels dedicated in that structure. He also uncovered residences of the late Early Dynastic period, two Akkadian administrative centers, and a palace of the Isin Larsa/Old Babylonian period.This monograph presents this large and significant corpus of unpublished material and includes analyses of stratigraphy, architecture, sculpture, cylinder seals, metalwork, and pottery, and discussions of chronology, the succession of the first kings of Adab, and administrative practices during the third millennium BC.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Banks, Edgar James, --- Adab (Extinct city) --- Bismaya (Iraq) --- Antiquities.

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Transliteration, translation, and commentary on 369 Sargonic texts from ancient Adab

Cuneiform tablets --- Akkadian language --- Sumerian language --- Adab (Extinct city) --- Babylonia --- Antiquities. --- History --- Tablets, Cuneiform --- Clay tablets --- Cuneiform writing --- Vavilonii︠a︡ --- Bavel --- Bābil --- Babylonien --- Sumer --- Iraq --- Antiquities --- Texts --- Sources --- Cuneiform tablets - Iraq - Adab (Extinct city) --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Sumerian language - Texts --- Babylonia - Antiquities --- Adab (Extinct city) - History - Sources --- Babylonia - History - Sources

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Taha Hussein (1889–1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures. A graduate of al-Azhar, Egypt's oldest university, a civil servant and public intellectual, and ultimately Egyptian Minister of Public Instruction, Hussein was central to key social and political developments in Egypt during the parliamentary period between 1922 and 1952. Influential in the introduction of a new secular university and a burgeoning press in Egypt—and prominent in public debates over nationalism and the roles of religion, women, and education in making a modern independent nation—Hussein remains a subject of continued admiration and controversy to this day. The Last Nahdawi offers the first biography of Hussein in which his intellectual outlook and public career are taken equally seriously. Examining Hussein's actions against the backdrop of his complex relationship with the Egyptian state, the religious establishment, and the French government, Hussam R. Ahmed reveals modern Egypt's cultural influence in the Arab and Islamic world within the various structural changes and political processes of the parliamentary period. Ahmed offers both a history of modern state formation, revealing how the Egyptian state came to hold such a strong grip over culture and education—and a compelling examination of the life of the country's most renowned intellectual.

Intellectuals --- Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā, --- Political and social views. --- Egypt --- Cultural policy --- History --- Politics and government --- Taha Hussein. --- adab. --- cultural history. --- democracy. --- humanism. --- institutional history. --- nahda. --- parliamentary Egypt. --- social history. --- university.

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Bismaya (Iraq) --- Cuneiform tablets --- Akkadian language --- Sumerian language --- Sargon --- Naram-Sin, --- Cornell University. --- Adab (Extinct city) --- Babylonia --- Antiquities. --- Tablets, Cuneiform --- Clay tablets --- Cuneiform writing --- Sargon of Agade --- Naramsîn, --- Cornell University --- Bismya (Iraq) --- Iraq --- Antiquities --- Texts --- Cuneiform tablets - Iraq - Adab (Extinct city) --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Sumerian language - Texts --- Sargon - I, - King of Agade --- Naram-Sin, - King of Babylonia, - approximately 2254 B.C.-approximately 2218 B.C. --- Babylonia - Antiquities --- Bismaya (Iraq) - Antiquities --- Babylonia - Antiquities. --- -Umma (Extinct city) --- Isin (Extinct city) --- Umma (Extinct city)

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Steven Wasserstrom undertakes a detailed analysis of the "creative symbiosis" that existed between Jewish and Muslim religious thought in the eighth through tenth centuries. Wasserstrom brings the disciplinary approaches of religious studies to bear on questions that have been examined previously by historians and by specialists in Judaism and Islam. His thematic approach provides an example of how difficult questions of influence might be opened up for broader examination.In Part I, "Trajectories," the author explores early Jewish-Muslim interactions, studying such areas as messianism, professions, authority, and class structure and showing how they were reshaped during the first centuries of Islam. Part II, "Constructions," looks at influences of Judaism on the development of the emerging Shi'ite community. This is tied to the wider issue of how early Muslims conceptualized "the Jew." In Part III, "Intimacies," the author tackles the complex "esoteric symbiosis" between Muslim and Jewish theologies. An investigation of the milieu in which Jews and Muslims interacted sheds new light on their shared religious imaginings. Throughout, Wasserstrom expands on the work of social and political historians to include symbolic and conceptual aspects of interreligious symbiosis. This book will interest scholars of Judaism and Islam, as well as those who are attracted by the larger issues exposed by its methodology.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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