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Through his engaging and distinctive scientific approach to mythology and the history of religions, the renowned Syrian thinker Firas al-Sawah explores one of the most serious issues in philosophical thought and one of the most sensitive in religious thought: the existence of evil in the world and in the human soul, and how monotheistic beliefs, in particular, have addressed this issue by focusing on a concept new to religious thought: the concept of the “cosmic devil.” The devil is not simply an evil being like those otherworldly entities that have always existed in religious belief systems, but rather the cosmic principle of evil, the original source from which all observable partial evil arises. This places him in contradiction and opposition to the source of truth and goodness.
From the conflict and contradiction of these two sources, the process of time and history unfolds, from the beginning of the world to its end on the Day of Judgment. From this point, the author’s scope of study expanded to include what he calls “the theology of history,” moving from examining the concept of Satan in a particular belief system to the meaning that religious thought ascribes to time and history, and to the nature of its understanding of God, the world, and humanity, as well as the relationship between the pillars of this trinity around which all philosophical and religious ideologies revolve. Firas al-Sawah’s ninth book presents fifteen hundred years of the final chapter in the history of Eastern religions, exploring their sequence, interconnectedness, and internal unity.
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