Autor Jean-Pierre Filiu

‘The Gaza I knew, and whose length and breadth I’ve travelled, has ceased to exist.’ Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land’s people and places; he speaks the local dialect. But nothing prepared him for what…

Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed, yet enduringly neglected. Squeezed between the Negev and Sinai deserts on the one hand and the Mediterranean Sea on the other, Gaza was contested by the Pharaohs, Persians,…

V této knize se Jean-Pierre Filiu zabývá pojetím apokalypsy v islámu a literaturou, jež se tomuto tématu věnuje. Autor zmiňuje nejen apokalyptické vize v Koránu a klasických pramenech muslimské tradice, ale také aktuální literární produkci, která aplikuje…