Recently published by Dar Al-Samer for Printing, Publishing and Distribution, a new book by the writer Aziz Sajit entitled “The Crying of the Sacred Tree… Mandaean Anthropology”, with a distinctive and beautiful cover by the artist Saleh Jadri.
The book includes ten chapters in 302 pages, namely: Chapter One: General Concepts, Chapter Two: Our Mandaean Heritage, the Essence of the Past, Spirit of the Present, and Prospects for the Future, Chapter Three: The Copper Scrolls… The Qumran Scrolls, Chapter Four: Water… Life and Rituals, Chapter Five: Vows and Offerings in Ancient Beliefs, Chapter Six… The Weeping of the Sacred Tree, Chapter Seven… Imam Mahdi in Ancient Religions, Chapter Eight… Towards an Open Horizon for the Mind, Chapter Nine… An Analytical View of Life After Death (Paradise in Ancient Civilizations), Chapter Ten. taboo.
In this book, the writer Aziz Sajit embarks on logical and rational analyzes in search of the nature of the soul and spirit that the monotheistic religions came with, linguistically, intellectually, and ideologically, as he takes the reader, through it, on a long journey that is not devoid of pleasure in the paths of knowledge and its luminous paths, through Concepts proposed by Arab and non-Arab philosophers, putting before us the keys and criteria upon which Al-Farabi, Ibn Khaldun and some Orientalist philosophers relied to determine the meaning of the soul.
