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

by Peter Hill

'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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861547365
• ISBN13: 9780861547364
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Oneworld Academic
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"