Peter Hill

Assistant Professor of History, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Peter Hill is assistant professor of history at Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He is the author of Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda (2020) and of a study of Mikha’il Mishaqa, Prophet of Reason: Science, Religion and the Origins of the Modern Middle East (2024).

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Written by Peter Hill

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Nations and empires

The paradoxes of Mikha’il Mishaqa

He was a Catholic, then a rationalist, then a Protestant. Most of all, he exemplified the rise of Arab-Ottoman modernity

Peter Hill