Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources
Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources

Author: Emeri J. van Donzel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9004174168

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Alexander's Alleged Wall Against Gog and Magog, often connected with the enclosure of the apocalyptic people, was a widespread theme among Syriac Christians in Mesopotamia. In the ninth century Sallam the Interpreter dictated an account of his search for the barrier to the Arab geographer Ibn Khurradadhbih. The reliability of Sallam's journey from Samarra to Western China and back (842-45), however, has always been a highly contested issue. Van Donzel and Schmidt consider the travel account as historical. This volume presents a translation of the source while at the same time it carefully looks into other Eastern Christian and Muslim traditions of the famous lore. A comprehensive survey reconstructs the political and topographical data. As so many other examples, this story pays witness to the influence of the Syriac Christian tradition on Koran and Muslim Traditions.

The Rise and Organisation of the Achaemenid Empire
The Rise and Organisation of the Achaemenid Empire

Author: W J Vogelsang

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-08-14

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9004671331

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Discusses the eastern part of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Use is made of geographical, general historical, Persian Achaemenid, Classical and archaeological material. An answer is sought to the question of how the Persians could conquer a vast empire within a very short time, and managed to preserve it for some two hundred years.

Mediaeval Researches from Eastern Asiatic Sources
Mediaeval Researches from Eastern Asiatic Sources

Author: E. Bretschneider

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1136380493

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First Published in 2000. This is Volume I of five of a series on China. Written in 1888, this starts with Part III of fragments towards the knowledge of the geography and history of Central and Western Asia from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century.