Sentences with phrase «ninth century a.d.»

After coming into being during the ninth century A.D., it thrived

After coming into being during the ninth century A.D., it thrived for 6 centuries as a central hub for commerce and art — rising to eventually become the capital of the Khmer Empire — before it started its rapid and heretofore unaccountable decline.

When he parsed the data, the pattern was unmistakable: At the beginning of the ninth century A.D., there was a sharp and severe drop in rainfall.

The ninth century A.D., Moyes knew, was a turbulent time in Maya history.

There was no sign of the Maya in the caves beyond the middle of the ninth century A.D.

Most artifacts discovered closer to the entrance of the cave dated from A.D. 250 all the way up to the ninth century A.D.. However, deep in the darkness of the main chamber, the artifacts all dated from the eighth and ninth century A.D.

In the ninth century A.D. Indian philosopher Abhinavagupta discovered this effect, which Austrian - British art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich rediscovered in the 20th century.

While this book itself is too late in origin to have affected Christian thought since it comes from perhaps the ninth century A.D., it is probably true that Zoroastrian beliefs concerning eschatology, here carried to such an extreme, did materially affect late Hebrew and early Christian ideas of the ending of the world and the final judgment.

The compilation of the Traditions took final form at the hands of Bukhari and Muslim in the third century (ninth century A.D.), and today most Muslims recognize their work as the two correct books on Traditions.

Back in the 1980s our team was investigating a ninth century A.D. site in northern Japan.

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The impact of Islam on Hinduism made itself felt in the reform movements it inspired among the Hindus in the third to the sixth century (ninth to twelfth century A.D.).

As early as 554 A.D., priests who disclosed confessions were severely punished (William Harold Tiemann and John C. Bush, The Right to Silence: Privileged Communications and the Law [Abingdon, 1983], p. 35) By the close of the ninth century, priests revealing the matter of a confession were deposed and exiled for life (p. 36) In the Catholic tradition, confession is seen as a sacrament that conveys grace.

It is no surprise that the period from the fourth to the ninth century should give birth to the pathology of A.D. 1000.

Ma Huan, a Chinese Muslim traveler who accompanied a high dignitary from China on an official journey, visited Tuban, Gersik, and Surabaya — all on the north coast of Java — in the ninth century, at the earliest in 855 (A.D. 1451).

Among the monastery's most important Syriac and Arabic manuscripts are a fifth century copy of the Gospels in Syriac, a literary language based on an eastern Aramaic dialect; a Syriac copy of the «Lives of Women Saints,» dated 779 A.D.; the Syriac version of the «Apology of Aristides,» of which the Greek original has been lost; and numerous Arabic manuscripts from the ninth and 10th centuries, when Middle Eastern Christians first began to use Arabic as a literary language.