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The last temple of Sabians (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) 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 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 temples
Period 13th century CE	Channel Islamic philosophers and scholars

Text
Ibn Shaddad:
When the city of Harran was conquered by the Muslims, ˁIyad ibn Ghanam made one of the temples of the Sabians into the Friday Mosque, but allotted them another locality in Harran where they built another temple which remained in their hands until its destruction by Yaḥya Ibn Shatir who was the governor of Harran in behalf of Sharaf al-Dawla.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Ibn Shaddad

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.
Rice 1952, 38	Rice, D. S. “Medieval Harran. Studies on its Topography and Monuments, I.” Anatolian Studies 2 (1952) 36-84. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]

Amar Annus

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