Book description
Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in variousā¦
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Like most Americans I grew up with a simplistic view of the Middle East. From Western news it is easy to assume that the "Arab world" is filled almost exclusively with Muslims who live and die in an Islamic world. Gerard Russell, a former British and UN diplomat, disproves this oversimplification with his detailed travelogue in which he recounts his journeying among "forgotten"Ā religions and civilizations such as the Mandeans and Ezidis (ancient Gnostic communitiesĀ of Iraq), the ZoroastriansĀ ("fire worshippers" of Iran), and Coptics (a pre-Islamic civilization of Egyptian Christians whose languageĀ harkens back to the Pharaohs).Ā
From Zachary's list on Christians in the Middle East.
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