Table of Contents:
Foreword: The Poles of the Semitic World
PART I: The East Semites: The Mesopotamian Logos
Chapter 1: Great Sumer and its Legacy
Chapter 2: The Gods of Mesopotamia
Chapter 3: The Structure of the Mesopotamian Logos: Noological Proportions
PART II: The West Semites: Ba’al, the Bloody God of Thunder
Chapter 4: West-Semitic Antiquity
Chapter 5: The Religion of the West Semites: The Paradigm of Ba’al
Chapter 6: The Metaphysics of the Phoenicians
Chapter 7: Aramaic Culture
PART III: The Jews and Civilization
Chapter 8: The Ancient Jews: The Historial of Monotheism
Chapter 9: From Adam to Babylon
Chapter 10: The Patriarchs
Chapter 11: The Return to Canaan: The Paradoxes of Land
Chapter 12: The Canaanite Logos and the Paradoxes of Negative Identity
Chapter 13: Israel as a Kingdom
Chapter 14: The Time of the Prophets and the Iranian Pivot of the Jewish Historial
Chapter 15: Late Judaism in the Empire of Light
Chapter 16: Christianity and Judaism
Chapter 17: The Civilization of Exile
Chapter 18: Awakening Ba’al: Pseudo-Messiahs and Holy Apostasy
Chapter 19: Judaism and Modernity
Chapter 20: A Noological Analysis of Jewish Identity
PART IV: The Arab Logos: The Secret of the Moon
Chapter 21: Arabian Identity
Chapter 22: Arab Polytheism
Chapter 23: On the Eve of Islam
Chapter 24: The Beginning of Islam
Chapter 25: The Historico-Theological Phases of Islamic Civilization
Chapter 26: Abbasid Islam: The Universalization of Discourse
Chapter 27: Arab Alchemy
Chapter 28: Sufism and its Logos: The Solar Monotheism of Ibn Arabi
Chapter 29: Post-Arab Islam
Chapter 30: Ibn Khaldun: The Sociology of Islam
Chapter 31: Modern Islam: Identity and the Postcolonial Complex
Chapter 32: The Noology of Islam
Conclusion: The Versions and Types of the Semitic Logos
