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al-Bīrūnī on the Harranians (1)

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Celestial council
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.05 Celestial imagery
01.05.08 Celestial council
Concept of god (2)
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.03 Assyrian substratum features in early Syriac Christianity
12.03.03.03 Concept of god (2)
Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
God’s transcendence
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.01 Unity of god (monotheism/henotheism/cosmotheism)
01.04.01.04 God’s transcendence
Great gods
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.05 Great gods
Harran
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12.03.02.01 Harran
Seven planetary gods
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.06 Seven planetary gods
Unity of god (monotheism/henotheism/cosmotheism)
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.01 Unity of god (monotheism/henotheism/cosmotheism)

Keywords
Harran
religions

Period
11th century CE
Abbasid Empire

Channel
Islamic philosophers and scholars

Text
All … we know about them is that they profess monotheism and describe God as exempt from anything that is bad, using in this description the via negationis … The rule of the universe they attribute to the celestial globe and its bodies, which they consider as living, speaking, hearing and seeing bodies.

Bibliography

Drower 1937, xvii

Drower, Ethel Stefana. The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran. Their cults, customs, magic, legends, and folklore. London: Clarendon Press 1937.

Simo Parpola

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