Iraq after the Muslim Conquest - Michael G. Morony
CHRISTIANS also the monastery of Nardos with seventy monks and a library con- taining books and rolls of parchment. A church wit ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Christian since the fourth or early fifth century, and the city was a bishopric by 410, but the ruling Ban ...
CHRISTIANS Jacobites at Haditha were expelled by Titiis in about 590, for which he was made bishop by Isho 'yahbh I. They were a ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES power to name the metropolitan of Mar Matta.^173 The organization of the Jacobite Church in Iraq with twel ...
eRR! STIAN S the monastery called "The Daughters of Five Churches" at Ra's 'Ayn.^177 Because of the large number of pastoral Ara ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Nestorian village in Margha towards the end of the eighth century.185 The persistence of sectarian conflic ...
CHRISTIANS against the way communal bonds tended to be broken down by the laity in their daily relations with t,he members of ot ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES ophysite Arabs were killed, enslaved, or converted to Islam. The sur- render of the citadel of Takrit to t ...
CHRISTIANS continuation of the conflict between these factions than to any other single factor. Because the Nestorian Church lea ...
Chapter 13 PAGANS AND GNOSTICS PAGANS IN SASANIAN IRAQ Although paganism was declining in Sasanian Iraq, ancient indig- enous Me ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS as the third century.s There are references to pagan temples with idols in the late sixth and early seventh ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES during the two months following the vernal equinox when raiding was forbidden (Gk. anathema).10 Several an ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS passionate" occurs on one of the Jewish Aramaic incantation bowls from Nippur. This epithet evokes the Babyl ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES women at critical times, such as childbirth, and on children. In this aspect, the Aramaic and Mandaic Lili ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS instilled in her a desire for men and defiled her with menstruation by his kiss so that she would defile wom ...
Fig. 8. Incantation Bowls . a. Bowl from Tell Abu Sarifa with the figure of a sorcerer in the center. c. Detail of a sorcerer wi ...
d. Bearded figure with long hair on Aramaic incantation bowl, Nippur. Univ. of Chicago, Oriental Institute, no. 2. e. Male demon ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES placing the bowls upside down on the threshold or inside the walls of their houses. Sorcerers were the mos ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS which determine whatever happens, and it was this kind of materi- alistic fatalism that passed for science i ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES By the end of the Sasanian period, paganism in Iraq was charac- terized by sacrifice, magic, and astrology ...
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