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The Afroasiatic Roots of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Religions
by Dr. Julian Baldick (Author)
It is argued that just as there is a common Afroasiatic language family, so too there is a common Afroasiatic family of religions. There is an inner logic to be found in myths, folk-tales, rituals, customs and beliefs as far apart as Yemen and Nigeria which go back to an ancient past shared by the Bible and the pharaohs. Using the method of comparative mythology, the author sifts through the work of scholars - including anthropologists, religious historians, archaeologists and classical Greek writers and contemporary comments on them by professional Egyptologists - to build his picture of the African heritage, and how much of it is still with us in modern thought.
Julian Baldick is Lecturer in Comparative Religion at King's College in London. Reader in the Study of Religions
Studied at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Oxford University, where he took his doctorate. Has also gained qualifications from the University of Paris/Sorbonne.
His principal teaching areas and fields of interest are Islamic mysticism; religious history of Islam, Iranian, Indian and Central Asian Islam. His most recent academic publications include Imaginary Muslims: the Uwuysi Sufis of Central Asia. He is the author of Mystical Islam, Homer and the Indo-Europeans, and Black God.
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