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From the Holy Mountain

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In the spring of A.D. 587, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam.

More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide and inspiration, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps. Despite centuries of isolation, a surprising number of the monasteries and churches visited by the two monks still survive today, surrounded by often hostile populations. Dalrymple's pilgrimage takes him through a bloody civil war in eastern Turkey, the ruins of Beirut, the vicious tensions of the West Bank, and a Fundamentalist uprising in southern Egypt.

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Flamingo
Language
English
Pages
496

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Cover of: From the Holy Mountain
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East
March 15, 1999, Owl Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: From the holy mountain
From the holy mountain: a journey among the Christians of the Middle East
1999, H. Holt
in English - 1st Owl Books ed.
Cover of: From the Holy Mountain
From the Holy Mountain
May 5, 1998, Flamingo
in English
Cover of: From the holy mountain
From the holy mountain: a journey among the Christians of the Middle East
1998, H. Holt
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: From the Holy Mountain
From the Holy Mountain
May 5, 1998, Flamingo
Paperback in English - New Ed edition

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
496
Dimensions
7.9 x 5 x 1.5 inches
Weight
13.8 ounces

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OL9214670M
ISBN 10
0006547745
ISBN 13
9780006547747
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8645
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104040

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