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Harran under Muslim rule (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Animal offerings
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.03 Service of god
03.03.04 Feeding god
03.03.04.03 Animal offerings
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
Public festivals
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
Sabians
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity
12.03.02.02 Sabians

Keywords
Harran
paganism

Period
13th century CE
Byzantine Empire

Channel
Christian-Syriac philosophers and scholars

Text
Bar Hebraeus, Chronography 139:
Ibrahim, the Muslim governor of Harran] permitted the pagans of Harran to perform their mysteries openly, and at length they arrived at such a pitch of boldness that they decked out an ox in costly apparel, and gave him a crown of flowers, and they hung little bells on his horns, and they walked him around the bazaars whilst men sang songs and (played) pipes; and in this manner they offered him up as a sacrifice to their gods.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Bar Hebraeus, Chronography 139

Bibliography

Green 1992, 121

Green, Tamara. The City of the Moon God, Religious Traditions of Harran. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 114. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1992.

Amar Annus

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