Abstract
Ancient civilizations cared about death rituals, especially the civilizations that owned a legacy replete with intellectual and doctrinal values, such as the Iraqi and Roman civilizations, which are trying as much as possible to find solutions in understanding death, and in how to deal with the bodies of the dead, and the way they show their grief and contribute to what they lost, so they invented rituals and behaviors certain means of honoring the body by purifying it (washing and perfuming it), covering it by shrouding it, and protecting it from the hands of tinkerers, and from the evil spirits that they believed in their ability to harm the souls of the dead, As well about presenting them (the Iraqi and Roman civilizations) imaginary metaphysical interpretations emanating from religious mythology, which seems somewhat similar in their funeral rites and rituals and in their perceptions of the world after death, in which the dead lie underground, to a world known to them as the lower world or underworld.
Article Type
Article
First Page
265
Last Page
281
Publication Date
9-15-2023
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Alhadi, Hasanain Abdulrazzaq Hasan Hadi
(2023)
"Death Rituals before Islam A Comparison between the Rituals of the Iraqi and Roman Civilizations,"
Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences: Vol. 62:
Iss.
3, Article 14.
DOI: 10.36473/ujhss.v62i3.2127
Available at:
https://alustath.researchcommons.org/journal/vol62/iss3/14
