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Prophet of Reason
Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East
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An eighteen-year-old reads Voltaire and Volney and loses his religion. It’s 1818 in Ottoman Damietta, and Muslims and Christians are questioning everything. Mikha’il Mishaqa walks away from the Catholic Church. Thirty years later, in 1848, he announces his new faith: Evangelical Protestantism, scandalising his community and...
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A portrait of Enlightenment science, religious identity and empire in the making of the modern Middle Eastern world
A portrait of Enlightenment science, religious identity and empire in the making of the modern Middle Eastern world
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An eighteen-year-old reads Voltaire and Volney and loses his religion. It’s 1818 in Ottoman Damietta, and Muslims and Christians are questioning everything. Mikha’il Mishaqa walks away from the Catholic Church. Thirty years later, in 1848, he announces his new faith: Evangelical Protestantism, scandalising his community and kicking off a battle of polemics.
The world darkens. 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 came of age at the same time.
By tracing Mishaqa’s life through this tumultuous era, where 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 Sunni, Jew, and Orthodox Christian in the span of his life, and German missionaries walked naked in the streets of Valletta.
Prophet of Reason by Peter Hill offers a captivating exploration of faith and identity during a time of great upheaval, shedding light on the complex tapestry of beliefs that shaped the Middle Eastern landscape.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780861547364
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 May 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oneworld Academic
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 368
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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 and has published articles in Past & Present, the Journal of Arabic Literature, and Journal of Global History.
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