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Amin Maalouf’s analyses deserve careful consideration; his insightful observations are almost prophetic, given his profound knowledge of the major transformations that have shaped history. Twenty years ago, he was concerned about the rise of “murderous identities,” and then ten years ago about the “disruption of the world.” Today, he explains why all civilizations are at risk of collapse.
For over half a century, the author has been observing and traversing the world. He was in Saigon when the Vietnam War ended, and in Tehran when the Islamic Revolution erupted. In this insightful and comprehensive study, he is both an observer of events and a thinker, blending factual accounts with the presentation of arguments. He sometimes recounts significant events of which he was one of the few eyewitnesses, then rises to the level of a historian, transcending his personal experience to elucidate the reasons for the successive deviations that humanity has experienced, leading it to the brink of this collapse.
He states that “darkness began to spread from my homeland” before addressing the decline of the pluralistic East and the successive upheavals that afflicted the Arab and Islamic world, the repercussions of which gradually spread throughout the globe. The author also proposes a new hypothesis about a “great upheaval” that led to radical transformations in all human societies, making us their now-terrified inheritors. He concludes his study by asserting that an awakening is inevitable; the ship of the world cannot continue sailing toward its destruction.
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