Dmitry Cherkashin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5528067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dmitry Cherkashin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dmitry |
| FAMILY NAME | Cherkashin |
| SIGNATURE | CHERKASHIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State University for the Humanities |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2387-3483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Superiority is due to us, and the king should come from among us”
The last few decades have seen considerable interest in non-Muslim sources that contain material on the earliest stage of Islam. This paper examines one such witness, The Book of the Main Points by Yoḥannān bar Penkāyē, a 7th-century Syriac universal history, that provides an account of the Arab conquests, the first decades of the Umayyad caliphate, with a special focus on the events of the Second Fitna. The paper includes a commentary on selecte…
Syriac Spells for a Mill and Their Historical Context
This article considers a text-unit known in five Syriac codices and consisting of up to three magical recipes. The target of all these recipes is a mill: two of them are curses ( ˀassārā ‘binding spell’) and intend to stop the mill, while the third one is a counter-spell ( šeryānā ‘loosening spell’), which aims to annul the curse. One of the two binding spells includes a rare example of an Arabic incantation written in Garshuni . The main purpose…
Three Etiological Stories from Soqotra in Their Near Eastern Setting
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Three Etiological Stories from Soqotra in Their Near Eastern Setting
Syriac Spells for a Mill and Their Historical Context
This article considers a text-unit known in five Syriac codices and consisting of up to three magical recipes. The target of all these recipes is a mill: two of them are curses ( ˀassārā ‘binding spell’) and intend to stop the mill, while the third one is a counter-spell ( šeryānā ‘loosening spell’), which aims to annul the curse. One of the two binding spells includes a rare example of an Arabic incantation written in Garshuni . The main purpose…
“Superiority is due to us, and the king should come from among us”
The last few decades have seen considerable interest in non-Muslim sources that contain material on the earliest stage of Islam. This paper examines one such witness, The Book of the Main Points by Yoḥannān bar Penkāyē, a 7th-century Syriac universal history, that provides an account of the Arab conquests, the first decades of the Umayyad caliphate, with a special focus on the events of the Second Fitna. The paper includes a commentary on selecte…
Archaeology (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Botanical Research and Chemistry (1 work)