History

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 8 articles: Sarah B. Pomeroy, 'The Persian King and the Queen Bee', R.T. Scott, 'A Note on the City and the Camp in Tacitus, Histories 3.71', Robert Drews, 'The Lacuna in Tacitus' Annales Book Five in the Light of Christian Traditions', Duncan Fishwick, 'Pliny and the Christians', Duncan Fishwick, 'The Temple of Caesar at Alexandria', Arthur M. Eckstein, 'Review-Discussion: Two Interpretations of Caesar', Michael Peachin, 'A Note on the Early Days of Diocletian's Reign', Lee E. Reams, 'Sulla's Alleged Early Poverty and Roman Rent'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 5 articles: Blaise Nagy, 'The Argei Puzzle', Charles W. Fornara, 'The Order of Events in Ammianus Marcellinus 23.5.4-25', Vincent J. Rosivach, 'Manning the Athenian Fleet, 433-426 BC', Barry S. Strauss, 'Ritual, Social Drama and Politics in Classical Athens', Stephen Ruzicka, 'A Note on Philip's Persian War'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 5 articles: J.D. Bing, 'Sissu/Issus, and Phoenicians in Cilicia', A. Shapur Shahbazi, 'Irano-Hellenic Notes: 1. The Three Faces of Tigranes', R.A. McNeal, 'Review-Discussion: Bernal Once Again', Gary Reger, 'The Date of the Battle of Kos', Torben Vestergaard, Lars Bjertrup, Mogens Herman Hansen, Thomas Heine Nielsen, Lene Rubinstein, 'A Typology of the Women Recorded on Gravestones from Attica'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains a study by John Bodel on the legal and linguistic aspects of the so-called lex Lucerina inscription. Bodel argues that the ordinance - prohibiting dumping dung/refuse, abandoning corpses, and performing sacrifices in honor of the dead - pertains to civil rather than sacred law.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 4 articles: Gregory S. Bucher, 'The Annales Maximi in the Light of Roman Methods of Keeping Records', Duncan Fishwick, 'The Caesareum at Alexandria Again', Duncan Fishwick, 'A Ducking in the Tiber (Dio 61 [60],33,80)', Charles King, 'The Veracity of Ammianus Marcellinus' Description of the Huns'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 3 articles: Pericles Georges, 'Darius in Scythia: The Formation of Herodotus' Sources and the Nature of Darius' Campaign', J. Linderski, 'A Missing Ponticus', Stephan Podes, 'Ekklesiastikon and Participation in Public Service in Classical Athens: Misleading Literary and Archaeological Evidence - and the Alternative?'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 2 articles in memory of Fritz Schachermeyr: Gerhard Dobesch, 'Allgemeine Wurdigung', A.B. Bosworth, 'Ingenium und Macht: Fritz Schachermeyr and Alexander the Great', and Schachermeyr's Bibliography.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 6 articles: Alessandro Barchiesi, 'Ovid the Censor', E. Badian, 'Which Metellus? A Footnote to Professor Barchiesi's Article', Marleen B. Flory, 'The Meaning of Augusta in the Julio-Claudian Period', Harold B. Mattingly, 'Review-Discussion: Robert Develin, Athenian Officials', Karl R. Muhlbauer und Theresa Miller, 'Spielzeug und Kult. Zur religiosen und kultischen Bedeutung von Kinderspielzeug in der griechischen Antike', A. Sh. Shahbazi, 'Irano-Hellenic Notes. 2. The 'King's Eyes' in Classical and Iranian Literature'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 3 articles: Robert E.A. Palmer, 'Bullae insignia ingenuitatis', D.R. Shackleton Bailey, 'Two Passages in Cicero's Letters', N.V. Sekunda, 'Itabelis and the Satrapy of Mysia'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 3 articles: Fritz Schachermeyr, 'Abbruch, Uberleben und Neuwerden am Beginn und am Ende der Antike', Ella Hermon, 'Les priscae latinae coloniae et la politique colonisatrice a Rome', Colin M. Wells, 'Celibate Soldiers: Augustus and the Army'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 4 articles: Richard Saller, 'Domitian and His Successors: Methodological Traps in Assessing Emperors', K.M. Coleman, 'Latin Literature After AD 96: Change or Continuity', T. Corey Brennan, 'Principes and Plebs: Nerva's Reign as Turning-point?', Mary T. Boatwright, 'Public Architecture in Rome and the Year AD 96'.

The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 3 articles: 'Review-Discussion: M.H. Crawford (ed.), Roman Statues': Volume I: Wolfgang Dieter Lebek; Volume II: Bernardo Santalucia, Robert J. Littman, 'Dor and the Athenian Empire', Christopher Ehrhardt, 'Athens, Egypt, Phoenicia, c. 459-444 BC'.

‘Abd al-‘Azīz b. Marwān (d. 86/705) reigned as the amīr of Egypt and walī al-‘ahd (heir apparent) to the Islamic caliphate for over 20 years. This book intends to revive this largely forgotten amīr and demonstrate the critical role he played in the formation of the Marwānid dynasty. The founding thesis of this study is that ‘Abd al-‘Azīz was appointed the amīr of Egypt and second heir apparent due to the legitimacy his maternal lineage brought the nascent dynasty.

A collection of essays written in honour of S. Thomas Parker by his former students and colleagues. The essays focus on surveys, material and written culture, the economy, and the Roman military in the Near East.

The expansion of the cult of the goddess Isis throughout the Mediterranean world demonstrates the widespread appeal of Egyptian religion in the Greco-Roman period. In this monograph, Ashby focuses on an oft-neglected population in studies of this phenomenon: Nubian worshipers. Through examination of prayer inscriptions and legal agreements engraved on temple walls, as well as Ptolemaic royal decrees and temple imagery, Ashby sheds new light on the involvement of Nubians in the Egyptian temples of Lower Nubia, and further draws comparisons between Nubian cultic practices and the Meroitic royal funerary cult.

This study of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī’s (d. 631/1233) teachings on creation offers close analysis of all of his extant works of falsafa and kalām. Some of these were not known to previous scholars, yet they bear witness to key facets of the interaction between the historically inimical traditions of Hellenic philosophy and rational theology at this important intellectual moment. Al-Āmidī is seen to grapple with the encounter of two paradigms for the discussion of creation. On the one hand, Ibn Sīnā’s metaphysical concept of necessity of existence is the basis of his doctrine of the world’s pre-eternal emanation. On the other, for the mutakallimūn, the physical theory of atomism bolsters the view that God created the world from nothing. This study is of interest to scholars of Ibn Sīnā and Ash‘arism alike, as it advances our understanding of the ongoing tradition of rational theology in the Islamic world, long past Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī’s (d. 505/1111) famous attack on the philosophers.

This volume deals with One Thousand and One Nights in yet another and novel way as it brings old and new together by exploring parallels and possible origins of its tales, as well as the wealth of modern and contemporary material that it has originated and continues to inspire. The papers included in this volume address the theory and practice of the adaptation and appropriation of One Thousand and One Nights into any type of literary text and media, while approaching a definition of our contemporary knowledge and understanding of the Nights. Through this, it will be possible to underline the dynamic nature and autonomous life that the tale collection acquired and how it originated works like Jorge Luis Borges’s essays, Naguib Mahfouz’s works, Miguel Gomes’s trilogy, a Turkish soap opera that became popular around the world and made it to Netflix, or Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s well-known symphonic suite.

“In the absence of reliable archaeological evidence, the question of how the mosque was made represents a real challenge. Its origin remains moot despite many attempts to settle the question. This study sets out to explore whether early Islam, within the framework of the Prophet’s teachings and practices, as well as the Qurʾān, might have provided the necessary prompts for the making of the mosque and the shaping of its essential functional and architectural features. It also investigates how such religious prompts may have interacted with the political, cultural and socio-economic contexts in which the mosque type materialized. As such, this book scrutinizes two dominant tendencies regarding the mosque type, the modern Western views on its non-Islamic origins and the Islamic legalist views on what it should look like.”

Drawing on the expertise of scholars from a variety of backgrounds, this anthology specifically seeks to shed light on this genocide from a multidisciplinary perspective and serve as a step for developing the future scholarship about the Sayfo.

A collection of articles dedicated to raising global awareness and the restraining of growing injustice, while supporting the building up of a community that guarantees basic rights in a democratic society.

An English translation of Arman Akopian's comprehensive Introduction to Aramean and Syriac Studies, from the earliest appearances of Arameans in the historical record, through to the modern day.

The history of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study dates back to 1935, and it is the one area of scholarship that has been continuously represented at the Institute ever since. The volume opens with a historical sketch of the study of the Near and Middle East at the Institute. The second part of the volume consists of essays and short studies by IAS scholars, past and present, covering fields such as the ancient Near East and early Islamic history, the Bible and the Qurʾān, Islamic intellectual history within and beyond denominational history, Arabic and other Semitic languages and literatures, Islamic religious and legal practices, law and society, the Islamic West, the Ottoman world, Iranian studies, the modern Middle East, and Islam in the West.

This work is volume 2 of Boaz Cohen’s collected articles, with a new introduction by rabbinics scholar Natalie B. Dohrmann.

This book focuses on the production, sale, and consumption of portable arts in regions covered today by the modern polities of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestine Authority. The reprinted chapters in this volume have been revised and updated. They offer interdisciplinary approaches to the material culture of the region from the twelfth to the early twentieth centuries, combining evidence from primary written sources, archaeology, and objects in museums and private collections. Topics include the production and distribution of pottery, importation of glazed wares into the Middle East, shadow puppetry, economic activity associated with the Syrian hajj, the manufacturing practices of the crafts operating in Damascus during the last decades of Ottoman rule, and the decoration of artillery shell cases during and after World War I. Also included are an introduction containing a critical evaluation of the main sources of information, a cumulative bibliography, and a previously unpublished study of leatherworking in the late Ottoman period.

The History of Mar Behnam and Sarah tells the story of two siblings who convert to Christianity under the tutelage of Mar Mattai, a monastic leader and wonderworker from the Roman Empire. In this volume, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and Kyle Smith provide the first critical edition and English translation of this fascinating martyrdom narrative.