Peter Hill: Prophet of Reason, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Prophet of Reason
- Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Verlag:
- Oneworld Publications, 06/2024
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780861547364
- Artikelnummer:
- 11789825
- Umfang:
- 368 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 340 g
- Maße:
- 234 x 152 mm
- Stärke:
- 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 11.6.2024
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
'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.
Biografie
Peter Hill ist Professor für Musik an der Universität in Sheffield.