The Last Pagans of Iraq
ISBN: 9789047409083
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Semantics (Philosophy); Truth.; Truthfulness and falsehood.; Liar paradox.;

This is the first analysis in any language of the religious, philosophical and folkloristic content of Ibn Waḥshiyya's (d. 931) Nabatean Agriculture .

This enigmatic book, said to have been translated by Ibn Waḥshiyya from Syriac into Arabic, contains much material on Late Antique Paganism in Iraq and semi-learned reception of Greek philosophical thought.

The first part of the present book studies the question of authenticity, authorship and context of the Nabatean Agriculture , dated by the author to around 600 AD. The second part consists of 61 translated and annotated excerpts of the Nabatean Agriculture , until now available only in the Arabic original, as well as introductions to the world view of the text.


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