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The Knights Templar of the Middle East: The Hidden History of the Islamic Origins of Freemasonry
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by Hrh Prince Michael of Albany and Walid Amine Salhab
Sales Rank: 859543
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 210 pages
Published by: Weiser Books November 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 157863346X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1578633463
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Book Description
For the first time ever, a source from within reveals the shocking truth that the roots of the Knights Templar, and thus those of Freemasonry, were actually more deeply linked to Islam than to Christianity. The Knights Templar of the Middle East breaks new ground in this well-tilled sphere and is guaranteed to stir more fires of controversy than any other book to date on Freemasonry and Templars.
Prince Michael writes with sterling scholarship, making full use of his access to libraries of the secret orders of which he is a member. The book delves deep to examine the true roots of this worldwide society, revealing both historical events from Europe to the Middle East and the authors own deeply personal, perilous journey to research and expose this hidden history.
Going against the accepted history of the Freemason society as evolved from a remnant of Knights Templar who settled in Scotland, The Knights Templar of the Middle East takes readers much farther back to the true historical biblical land, based in Western Arabia rather than Palestine. The true secret of the Inner Circle of the Order of the Templars was such that, had they revealed it, the knowledge would have rocked the cradle of Christian and Judaic beliefs.
About The Author
HRH Prince Michael is a Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Templar of St. Anthony and a Scottish Freemason. His first book, The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland, was a bestseller in Scotland and the UK. In 1992, Prince Michael was elected president of the European Council of Princes. Recently named to the Diplomatic Corps of the Government of the Knights of Malta, he resides in the UK. Sir Walid Salhab was born in Lebanon in 1960 and graduated from the Islamic College of Tripoli in 1974. He presently lectures on media and filmmaking at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh.
Reader Reviews
This review is well intentioned to HRH and the co-author. However, the book simply does not meet minimal quality criteria for such a work and casts a thick shadow on Samuel Weiser publishers, otherwise known for high quality in the esoteric field. Perhaps authors and publisher were in a great commercial hurry to jump onto the Da Vinci Code bandwagon. The subtitle is presumptuous. Its last part should have read "the Islamic transmission of Freemasonry" instead of "origins". As HRH should know, the origins of masonic craft symbolics and initiation are "from time immemorial". The text to be printed was, if at all, very poorly proofread and abounds in errors of spelling, grammar and syntax. If proofreading quality is an indication of what HRH's rule might be like, God save Scotland! Although it contains a list of reference texts, the book is not footnoted and thus places much if not most of its content, alas, into the realm of conjecture. One of the central recurrent themes of HRH is continual severe bashing of the Christian Roman Catholic Church, an institution to which, mind you, this reviewer does not belong. This concurs with HRH's decidedly "kshatriya" (warrior caste) point of view. Not unlike the 19th century abuse and capture of French freemasonry by egalitarian politics, HRM purports that 18th century French FM served above all as a cover and camouflage to place the Stuart dynasty back on the throne of the United Kingdom. If this were so, so much the worser for the initiatic Order of FM! As is frequent among authors, HRM reveals his ideological leanings in the Preface by referring to the 19th century notion of reincarnation, if taken literally an absurd amalgamation of the two traditional doctrines of transmigration (not restricted to one world among an indefinity thereof)and metemphychosis. Apparently many if not most "modern occultists" including HRH have great difficulty understanding that the known universe with all of its mega- and micro-galaxies, black holes, quanta, waves, and beings, is only one of an indefinity of worlds, and definitely not a closed circuit. So YRH and Mr Salhab, if you decide to publish a 2nd edition, at the very least please be so kind as to: 1. proofread it or have it professionally proofread, 2. meticulously footnote it, and 3. refrain from assertions that only detract from your historic position.
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