LIBROS DEL AUTOR: garth fowden

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  • Before and After Muhammad
    Garth Fowden
    A new historical framework integrating Islam into European and Asian historyIslam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature s...
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    37,72 €

  • Abraham or Aristotle? First Millennium Empires and Exegetical Traditions
    Garth Fowden
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    39,24 €

  • Empire to Commonwealth
    Garth Fowden
    In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome’s prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire’s decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen 'world empires.' But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghda...
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  • The Egyptian Hermes
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    Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of numerous books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, astrology, theology, and philosophy. Until the early seventeenth century, few doubted t...
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    65,33 €