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    Prophet of Reason (häftad, eng)

    ''An outstanding intellectual biography.'' Eugene Rogan

    In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watc...
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      ''An outstanding intellectual biography.'' Eugene Rogan

      In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watches a solar eclipse. Will it foretell a war, a plague, the death of a prince? Mikha’il Mishaqa’s lifelong search for truth starts here.

      Soon he’s reading Newtonian science and the radical ideas of Voltaire and Volney: he loses his religion, turning away from the Catholic Church. Thirty years later, as civil war rages in Syria, he finds a new faith – Evangelical Protestantism. His obstinate polemics scandalise his community.

      Then, in 1860, Mishaqa barely escapes death in the most notorious event in Damascus: a massacre of several thousand Christians. We are presented with a paradox: rational secularism and violent religious sectarianism grew up together.

      By tracing Mishaqa’s life through this tumultuous era, when empires jostled for control, Peter Hill answers the question: What did people in the Middle East actually believe? It’s a world where one man could be a Jew, an Orthodox Christian and a Sunni Muslim in turn, and a German missionary might walk naked in the streets of Valletta.


      Format Häftad
      Omfång 368 sidor
      Språk Engelska
      Förlag Oneworld Publications
      Utgivningsdatum 2024-05-02
      ISBN 9780861547364

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      • Format Häftad
      • Antal sidor 368
      • Språk Engelska
      • Utgivningsdatum 2024-05-02
      • ISBN 9780861547364
      • Förlag Oneworld Publications

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      • Antal sidor 368
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      • Utgivningsdatum 2024-05-02
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