{"product_id":"9780861547364-prophet-of-reason-science-religion-and-the-origins-of-the-modern-middle-east","title":"Hill Peter - Prophet Of Reason Science Religion And The Origins Of The Modern Middle East - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Prophet Of Reason Science Religion And The Origins Of The Modern Middle East\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Hill Peter\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Oneworld Publications\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780861547364\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 368 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 6\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: History Of Religion","brand":"Hill Peter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49599495766321,"sku":"IN-G-9780861547364","price":32.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780861547364.jpg?v=1724454249","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780861547364-prophet-of-reason-science-religion-and-the-origins-of-the-modern-middle-east","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}