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Prophet of Reason
- Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East
Engelsk
Bogcover for Prophet of Reason af Peter Hill, 9780861547364
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9780861547364
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0861547365
Udg. Dato:
2 maj 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,4 x 2,8
Oplagsdato:
2 maj 2024
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Prophet of Reason

- Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East
Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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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.



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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9780861547364
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0861547365
Udg. Dato:
2 maj 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,4 x 2,8
Oplagsdato:
2 maj 2024
Forfatter(e):
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