Prophet of Reason (häftad, eng)
''An outstanding intellectual biography.'' Eugene Rogan
In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watc...
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.
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 |
Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 368
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2024-05-02
- ISBN 9780861547364
- Förlag Oneworld Publications
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Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 368
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2024-05-02
- ISBN 9780861547364
- Förlag Oneworld Publications