Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East by Hill, Peter

Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East

'An outstanding intellectual biography.' Eugene Rogan In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watches...
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Author: Peter Hill
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Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East by Hill, Peter

Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East

€63,01

Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East

€63,01
Author: Peter Hill
Format: Paperback
Language: English
'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.

Author: Peter Hill
Publisher: Oneworld Academic
Published: 06/11/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.08w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780861547364


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/27/2024

About the Author
Peter Hill is a historian of the modern Middle East, specialising in the Arab world in the long nineteenth century. He is the author of Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda (2020) and has published articles in Past & Present, the Journal of Arabic Literature, and Journal of Global History.

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