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Über die südarabische Sage by Kremer, Alfred, Freiherr von, 1828-1889. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Alfred Freiherr von Kremer (1828 -89) was an Austrian orientalist and diplomat. He studied law at the University of Vienna and classical oriental languages at the Oriental Academy (now the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna). Upon the completion of his studies, he was sent by the Imperial Academy of Sciences (now the Austrian Academy of Sciences) to Syria and Egypt in 1849-51 to collect Arabic manuscripts. It was during this journey that he discovered Kitāb al-maghāzī (The book of conquests [of Prophet Muhammad]) by Muhammad ibn ʻUmar al-Waqidi (747 or 748-823), one of the earliest Muslim historians and a judge in the court of Abbasid caliphs Harun al-Rashid and al-Maʼmun. Kremer later pioneered the cultural history approach to oriental studies and published his seminal work Kulturgeschichte des Orients unter den Kalifen (Cultural history of the Orient under the caliphs). In the book presented here, Über die südarabische Sage (On the South Arabian folk tales), Kremer attempts to shed light on the history of pre-Islamic Yemen, especially that of the Himyarite Kingdom, which flourished 110 BC-525 AD and was initially pagan, then Jewish for more than a century, before being overthrown by Ch

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Author

Kremer, Alfred, Freiherr von, 1828-1889.

Publisher

Brockhaus, 1866.

Published

1866

Language

DE

Category

nonfiction