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Hardcover The Last Pagans of Iraq: Ibn Waḥshiyya and His Nabatean Agriculture Book

ISBN: 9004150102

ISBN13: 9789004150102

The Last Pagans of Iraq: Ibn Waḥshiyya and His Nabatean Agriculture

(Part of the Brill's Islamic History and Civilization Series)

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,...

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