TY - BOOK AU - McCants,William Faizi ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Founding gods, inventing nations: conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam AV - DS57 .M434 2012eb U1 - 939/.40072 22 PY - 2012/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Mythology, Middle Eastern KW - Greeks KW - Middle East KW - History KW - Romans KW - Arabs KW - Acculturation KW - Civilization KW - Philosophy KW - Historiography KW - Intellectual life KW - Colonization KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10499000 ER -