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In this brilliant exploration of the post-9/11 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand how we have arrived at such disorder. He explores three different but related aspects of disorder: intellectual (manifested in an unleashing of statements on identity that allow no possibility of peaceful co-existence or debate), economic and financial (that is exhausting the earth’s resources), and climatic (the result of turning a blind eye to the consequences of rampant industrialization). Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-9/11 world as ‘a clash of civilisations’ Maalouf sees it as the ‘exhaustion of two civilisations’, a period in which humanity has reached its threshold of ‘moral incompetence’. Islam and the West have theoretical coherence, he says, but in practice each betrays its true ideals: the West is unfaithful to its own enlightenment values, which has discredited it in the eyes of the people to whom it has introduced democracy by force; while Islam finds itself condemned to a headlong rush into radicalism. These symmetrical disorders are only some of the elements in a global disorder that requires humanity as a whole to take responsibility for its future and face up to the urgent tasks such as climate change and the global financial crisis that threaten us all.

Disordered World

Conmovedora historia en la que que Amin Maalouf nos sitúa en Mesopotamia en los albores de la Era Cristiana. Allí nos cuenta la historia de Mani, el hombre que fundó la doctrina que consiguió unir tres religiones y que ha llegado a nuestros días con el nombre de maniqueismo. A pesar de ser perseguido, humillado y, finalmente torturado y asesinado, Mani intentó dar a sus coetáneos una nueva forma de ver el mundo y de entender a Dios, aunque en su intento sólo consiguió ganarse el miedo y odio de emperadores, sacerdotes y magos, que no contentos con destruirle intentaron borrar todas las huellas de su presencia en la historia. Una bellísima historia y un libro fantástico. Absorbe, principalmente por la belleza de sus frases y de la historia que nos relata, porque nos llega directamente al corazón.