Iraq after the Muslim Conquest - Michael G. Morony
PAGANS AND GNOSTIeS of this story that occurs several times in the Qur'an says that Abraham broke all except one of the idols an ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES The pagans at 'Ayn Namir were converted by Mar 'Abda ibn Hanlf in the seventh century, beginning with the ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS beginning with 'Umar's instructions to Jaz' ibn Mu'awiya in Dasti-i Maysan in 643 to kill every magician and ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES and took out his head each year when Mercury was at its height, at which time his soul spoke and answered ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS monastery. A widow who served devils in the village of Niram tried to destroy Cyprian's successor, Rabban Ga ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES unexpected. Paganism survived directly among people who continued to be pagans and who venerated the old g ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS sinful and corrupt and anything that perpetuated material existence, such as human procreation, was perverte ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES rabbis, and to a lesser extent the Christian clergy (in their opposition to the antisocial aspects of Mani ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS at Mada'in in 612.7^9 Nestorians accused Marcionites of sorcery and of using idols to drive out demons, whic ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES tradition of "scientific" astrology and proclaiming the power of the planets and the zodiac, found their w ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS religiously among separate competing faiths, and Manichaeism sur- vived as one of them. Mani's message was t ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES of twelve prostrations in the direction of the sun or the moon. The Elect worshiped seven times, the Heare ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS ishment, and subsistence by forbidding agriculture, but he would ac- cumulate the souls of the Hearers out o ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Manichaeans, along with other Zindiqs, began to be persecuted by Islamic authorities toward the end of the ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS Heaven and its members could still be found around Mada'in in the tenth century .96 Chaldaean groups that cl ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES geometrically shaped temples and kept their images in human form in underground chambers where they perfor ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS although some of the bowls may have been produced after the con- quest. Although the bowl texts from Nippur ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES spell.^112 Myrtle, which was used for bridal wreaths, is mentioned in one of the rare positive appearances ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS Because of this gnostic overlay, the seven planets and the twelve signs of the zodiac were considered to be ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES terminology of the Jewish divorce formula that is used to drive off the Lilith occur in the Mandaic texts. ...
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