Reason and religion

in Ottoman Syria

A research project by Peter Hill

Peter Hill's Prophet of Reason wins the British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize 2025, for the best scholarly book in English on the Middle East

Crisis and Reason in Ottoman Syria
Lecture at the American University of Beirut
March 2025

Prophet of Reason: Mikhail Mishaqa's Journey to Protestantism in Ottoman Syria
Lecture at the Near East Theological Seminary, Beirut
September 2025

Podcast by Peter Hill with Charles Ough for the Lausanne Project August 2025

Writing Middle Eastern Lives
Recorded discussion with Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Marilyn Booth, and Peter Hill
Oxford Centre for Middle Eastern Studies
November 2025

"The paradoxes of Mikhail Mishaqa': Article for Aeon magazine (click the image for the link)

'Religion, Science, and an Arab Renaissance Man' Ottoman History Podcast with Peter Hill and Matt Ghazarian (click image for link)

Podcast with Peter Hill and Tugrul Mende on New Books Network (click image for link):

Recently Published:

Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion, and the Origins of the Modern Middle East

by Peter Hill

Oneworld Publications, 2024

Reviews of Prophet of Reason:

In Church History and Religious Culture by Alastair Hamilton

In the Church Times by Michael Lewis 

In Publishers Weekly