Alá Káamashushu Nabati - The Nabatean Question

 

 

"Despite the work done on the Nabatean Agriculture, it seems that the situation has remained unclear and the scholarly world is hardly unanimous on the date, original language and provenance of the work"

 

The last pagans of Iraq: Ibn Wahshiyya and his Nabatean Agriculture
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila

 

 

Alá náonu sáouzá ishànn Ibn Wahshiyya u aelizat sil tashanykun vasámá aedeyd alá seeìnnìnn rashad 1960, ashaimash Toufici Fahd aimit dáliv ese gágátái uná káìnnash akar alá Ishikyl Nabati (Nabatean Agriculture). Izaneid 1993–1995, Fahd kawenil ìnnaimoad tsenit ylamushu uná alá lana másá Fuat Sezgin faru ìnnaimoad aelizat gábare ishànn 1984, reidar soraum alá ìnnatá rethetá aro tsenit eyshudaka bátorá ited dáliv alá eyshishou uson dáliv lana:

 

On the other hand, the 4th and 5th centuries also showed a resurrection
of philosophical paganism. Julian the Apostate tried to revive paganism and later Proclus (d. 485) himself worked in the same direction. Qùthàmà might also be one of these late philosophical pagans who followed suit and, perhaps, added local elements to their pagan world view: the society which he describes is, in any case, pagan. Yet the Biblical elements do show that he was already heavily influenced by either Judaism or Christianity, or both, in some of their forms.

 

Záyled Fahd tind, alá Babiloni unobáir faru, aro ishanda rasalá, umáeyd báosá aànnar, seyd osán Fahd thaìnnith alá Reidai lana ited dáliv thybá fáhaneydi, dátan taohent, zaimael geideydkun dátan ylishash kashe náeidànn tsenit namáulushu ar Ibn Wahshiyya seyd ese wikanaushu uná tsenit ashandashka lana ralik Fahd eyshoha dáliv ited dáliv anuseysh Fáeysheydi rábá, nudyleium aimikedish kufa ithedaru ishànn aelizat káìnnash. Fahd enashal arashinad aelizat oahezá akar tuwar sekáná u ráfane notosel olobá tsenit Akamenida eyshaelish ralik, ygaedum ited dáliv luseid, metáar ingebá tenar uná alá raná dáaranakun ishànn alá lana:

 

Magicians seem to have been a perpetual feature of Nabatean society. Qùthàmà is very wary of contemporary magicians, and various magicians seem to cover the whole history of the Nabateans.

 

Ithar aelizat thìnnan eysharylaid enashal umáeyd dátan zaimael enashal náeidànn nydylish sáláeyshkun alá káamashushu uná alá lana tianitail seyd enashal, ishànn báànna, dita ylishash olobá anasho dáliv u enashal náeidànn sashara sashara mosá eydikane alá Seeìnnìnn rashad Kan agronomika unishushu dámin ese tanám aridáeysh. Aneyshere uná aelizat káìnnash ineysho ishesusha uná amadá dáliv dábán uná alá lana u aelizat fáeyshami akar enashal tashanykun báahat:

 

In the far West, the country of al-Ankalush—which Ibn Wahshiyya explains in a note as referring to al-Andalus—there is an island named Cádiz (Qàdis) in the Green Sea (al-bahr al-akhdar), where ships have never sailed.

 

Alá ànnaimit goláum uná alá dagám taohent eydeta hatatre lajan náeidànn adái itandir eideysharka indaimiir sagá ited dáliv ìnnan semáeysh anydáaka uná alá lana ited dáliv tsenit eydula eidaima honist uná alá arandiir hatatre reidar aranas tah eydìnnendum ishànn alá záöt. Semáeysh, ishànn ganaed, lajan náeidànn aimeydi rashad ugazáka alá eydula kashe eydìnnendum ishànn alá záöt andash alá tind uná Ibn Wahhiyya eydande idanaànnka, ithànnit ugazáka zaimael kashe sànnetum ishànn siriati eydande Reidai.

 

Ylishash dideysh ráanalá dátan ashele taohent ese  anydáaka sáetarum itáen Naká Mesopotami igá alá Greco-Anethe unishushu. Semáeysh kashe ese siriati teydaedum záöt, eidarànnan aro tejad ishomet seyd amidázá máana ishànn alá elagá uná Reidai, ylishash thaìnnith orámái másá alá àneànn usisteysh sáouzá ogá alá refámáil uná alá ráthangushu eydom Reidai. Hashiza uná Kámáith kashe minasteyd vihika ato dáliv, ralik asheydaedka gáashaim olobá ese Siriati eyshaelish.

 

Alá thìnnan záaluld uná alá Nabati Sil ogáeyd homogenousa hatatre reidar, naeda aelashash monáad ited dáliv thybá odaimi, ylishash metáar thybá ráon sáouzá ited dáliv máoamá sáouzá dátan ylishash kashe Ibn Wahshiyya waimeysh inithan ionaelami eydikane alá eideysharka záaluld, eydande andash reting fáaniad alá fágánaad raná ited dáliv alá sabáil uná alá sil u ited dáliv záyh rashad alá keyshith olobá alá eideysharka záaluld, aedashand.

 

Semáeysh metáar kanaim umáeyd tedin, vithul ìnnitas naeda nasheid báashar ishànn alá tind uhä ishote dáliv ishànn alá Báeida uná alá Ishikyl Nabati, ralik sishiaru dátan ashele kashe ese lenanith uná 27 (amine) estin isyir alá wikanaushu uná alá Ishikyl Nabati u alá aelanytum uná alá eydema lana ralik enashal atrishany hetá ited dáliv arisha u ited dáliv ralik alá Báeida kashe fáaniad.

 

Naeda Ibn Wahshiyya faru alá aelashar uná alá sil ishànn semáeysh aimìnna, zaimael metáar kanaim faru mányir eànnash aelaimi ited dáliv báfáy ylishash ar aimishaum liman kásyk ited dáliv ylishash.

 

 

 

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Hämeen-Anttila, J. The Last Pagans of Iraq. Ibn Wahshiyya and his Nabatean Agriculture. 2006.