This region, North Africa and West Asia, is where Christianity began, nearly 2,000 years ago. Many Christian communities today trace their histories back over the entire period. At the same time, there is no region in the world where Christians are more at risk of extinction, as civil wars, persecution and economic distress have resulted in a massive exodus of the Christian population. This volume documents that exodus while it is underway.
Tag: religion
An account of how bureaucratic procedures created the space for political conflict and slander in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bulgaria and what…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world
By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Judging a book by its cover: Designing ‘The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy’
Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
A woman walks across a bridge. She is looking at her mobile. She seems to be in a hurry. Close…
By Tahir Abbas Turkey is a beguiling country. It straddles one of the most important geopolitical fault lines in the…
Politics, Philosophy and Religion
Muslims in Scotland: Demographic, social and cultural characteristics
By Stefano Bonino First published on the LSE Religion and the Public Sphere blog – read the original article Far…
“There are Muslims in China? I didn’t know that.” Yes, indeed, there are—possibly as many as 25-30 million souls—and they…
By Eva Pascal What do Buddhist monks and Christian friars have in common? Quite a bit, in fact. While travelling…