The Gospel of Damascus

Omar Imady
ISBN: 9781933455105
$14.95

The Gospel of Damascus is an eschatological novel that weaves Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions to tell the story of eight angels who identify and prepare Yune Bukhari, a Damascene man born to a Christian mother and Muslim father, to be one of the successors to the Disciples of Christ. The preparation process is complex and entails spiritual and sensual experiences which Yune must successfully undergo. Guiding the preparation process are golden scrolls which can only be opened at very specific dates. The story appears to culminate on Christmas Eve 1999 when Yune, along with his co-disciples, believe Christ will return. Yune is shattered when Christ fails to descend on the White Tower east of Damascus. But thirty-three years later, the preparation of Yune is over and he is finally permitted to witness the event he had anticipated for so long.

Author: Omar Imady, Ph.D.

Omar Imady was born in Damascus to an American mother and a Syrian father. Educated at Macalester College (B.A.) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph. D. in Middle Eastern Studies), he is a poet of long standing in the Middle East and the author of several books in Arabic and English.

For over twenty-two years, Imady was the disciple of Bashir al-Bani (1911-2008), a Damascene Muslim scholar and a renowned Sufi mentor, a relationship that continuesto influence Imady's creative writing.

The Gospel of Damascus, a Book of the Year Award 2012 finalist and his first novel has been published in French, L'Evangile de Damas. Spanish & Arabic editions are underway.

A former professor of political science and academic dean at New York Institute of Technology in Amman, Jordan and currently visiting professor elsewhere, he has also authored When Your're Shoved from the Left, Look to Your Right: Metaphors of Islamic Humanism and The Rise and Fall of Muslim Civil Society.

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