Christopher de Bellaigue
Auteur de The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times
A propos de l'auteur
Christopher de Bellaigue has worked as a journalist in South Asia and the Middle East, writing for the Economist, the Guardian, and the New York Review of Books. He is the award-winning author of four books, has made several BBC television and radio documentaries, and has been a visiting fellow at afficher plus the universities of Harvard and Oxford. He lives in London. afficher moins
Crédit image: photo by Farhad Ahrarnia
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- Nom canonique
- de Bellaigue, Christopher
- Date de naissance
- 1971
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Tehran, Iran
- Études
- University of Cambridge
Eton College - Professions
- journalist
- Organisations
- The Economist
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- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 756
- Popularité
- #33,639
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 13
- ISBN
- 50
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 1
The writing style is clearly not academic - with a very relaxed and informal presentation. This should make the content more accessible to the lay reader, but the author throws in a plethora of arcane terms for the titles of local nobility and military terminology. I spent more time in Google than I would have liked. My personal favourite was "maniple" for a small unit of soldiers. The dictionaries I checked indicate the term has not been used since ancient Roman times. Couldn't the author have used unit, troop, or some other term??
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