Founding gods, inventing nations
Subtitle: conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam
By: William F. McCants
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780691151489
Subjects: Historiography; Acculturation; Intellectual life; Arabs; Philosophy; Colonization; Romans; Civilization; Middle Eastern Mythology; Greeks; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology; title: The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an; title: Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs; title: Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins; title: "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences.