Iraq after the Muslim Conquest - Michael G. Morony
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS The sorcerers became white-robed, hereditary, sacrament-administer- ing priests.^126 The Ginza describes a c ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES it might attract demons,129 Such fears were increased by the celibacy of Christian monks. According to cur ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS wise, the third canon of the Synod of Ezechiel in 576 spoke of Chris- tians who sought out magicians or fort ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES Egypt, and that augurs and wizards were more numerous among con- temporary Christians than they had been i ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS As it was used in this cult, the story of Adapa's rise to Heaven, where he was served the food and water of ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES sickness and death came from the air, i.e. that they were due to "nat- ural" causes.ISO The legendary Rabb ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS means of right guidance.^155 Muslims practiced their own kind of ther- apeutic magic sanctioned by IJadtth, ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES postponed until resurrection.^161 There were others who were not will- ing to wait that long. Montanists i ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS the sacraments of the church was basically a reaction to authority. It served the same purpose among sixth a ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES I:Ienanish6' was in retirement at the monastery of Mar Yiinan across the Tigris from Mawsil from 693 until ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS The Dai~anite position was exactly the same as the Mazdaean, and the spiritual elitism of Marcionites and Ma ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES these issues were important-among Christians in the Sasanian empire in the sixth century. Gabriel, bishop ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS Me~allyane in the second decade of the seventh century. Babai accused f:l<nana of chaldiota and claimed t ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES exult because of that which has been given. God does not love proud boasters.^185 In the Qur'an, divine om ...
PAGANS AND GNOSTICS or soul."189 Dadhish6' Qa~raya speaks of "the holy angel who ac- companies you and guards you by the order o ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES gnosticism and syncretism in the formation of these sects, the pagan component within them allowed the sur ...
Chapter 14 MUSLIMS: THE FORMATION OF THE COMMUNITY THE major religious change in Iraq in the seventh century was the arrival of ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES congregational worship. The masjid tended to replace the tribal majlis as the center of group life. The tr ...
MUSLIMS: THE COMMUNITY it was the only building large enough for the purpose, but it also symbolized how Muslims had replaced th ...
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES and teachers who gave instruction in morals and demonstrated the performance of religious rituals. They fo ...
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