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Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths, religious texts, and other literature that comes from the region of ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical region of Western Asia, situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system that occupies the area of present-day Iraq.
Al-Mutanabbi, an Iraqi poet Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature, British Museum.. Iraqi literature or Mesopotamian literature dates back to Sumerian times, which constitutes the earliest known corpus of recorded literature, including the religious writings and other traditional stories maintained by the Sumerian ...
Pages in category "Iraqi folklore" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Ali Baba and the Forty ...
In an Iraqi tale collected by E. S. Drower with the title The Story Of Hasan Al-Basri, a Jewish jeweler and silversmith convinces a youth named Hasan Al-Basri to be his apprentice. They travel the desert and reach a mountain; the Jew skins a sheep and bids Hasan enter the sheepskin, so he is carried by an eagle to the mountaintop and he throws ...
The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth ... to Nineveh in Iraq, Smith found on May 7, 1873 a portion of a tablet containing the missing part of the flood story ...
A story circulates among the Shabak community in Northern Iraq about a certain ifrit who incensed Ali by his evil nature long before the creation of Adam. [d] Consequently, for the ifrit's wickedness, Ali chained the ifrit and left him alone. When the prophets arrived on earth, he appeared to all of them, beginning with Adam, and begged them ...
Martyn Green narrated the story on Arabian Nights' Entertainment (Riverside Records RLP 1405). Bing Crosby narrated and sang a version of the story for Simon & Schuster Records (A298:20)/Gala Records (GLP 351). Bing Crosby recorded the story on 25 April 1957, [10] linking the narrative with songs.
The Iraq national football team were the 2007 AFC Asian Cup Champions after defeating Saudi Arabia in the final, held in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2006, Iraq reached the football final of the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, after defeating former FIFA World Cup semi-finalists South Korea and eventually finished as runners-up, winning silver.