Founding gods, inventing nations conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam - McCants, William Faizi, 1975- (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012)
Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-166) and index.
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Keywords: Middle East -- Civilization -- Historiography; Middle East -- Civilization -- Philosophy; Civilization -- Philosophy; Mythology, Middle Eastern; Middle East -- Intellectual life; Middle East -- Colonization; Greeks -- Middle East -- History; Romans -- Middle East -- History; Arabs -- Middle East -- History; Acculturation -- Middle East -- History; HISTORY / Ancient / General; Electronic books