This volume contains 22 papers originally delivered at the Society of Biblical Literature's 1995 commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library.

This book examines the life and works of the important Sunnite "h ad th" critic Ibn Ab h tim al-R z (240/854-327/938), with emphasis on his famous "Taqdima." This study defines his vision of the "h ad th" critic and analyses the nature of "h ad th" criticism.

In the second of a three-volume work, Seta B. Dadoyan explores the Armenian condition from the 970s to the end of the fourteenth century. This period marked the gradual loss of semi-autonomy on the traditional mainland and the rise of Armenian power of diverging patterns in southeastern Asia Minor, north

In this first of a massive three-volume work, Seta B. Dadoyan studies the Armenian experience in the medieval Islamic world and takes the reader through hitherto undiscovered paradigmatic cases of interaction with other populations in the region. Being an Armenian, Dadoyan argues, means having an ethnic ancestry laden with narratives

In this first of a massive three-volume work, Seta B. Dadoyan studies the Armenian experience in the medieval Islamic world and takes the reader through hitherto undiscovered paradigmatic cases of interaction with other populations in the region. Being an Armenian, Dadoyan argues, means having an ethnic ancestry laden with narratives