Ex Oriente Lux

Orientalist, Historian, Political Scientist, Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, 59, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages. He refuted Greek nationalism, supported Martin Bernal´s Black Athena, and rejected the Greco-Romano-centric version of History. He pleaded for the European History by J. B. Duroselle, and defended the rights of the Turkish, Pomak, Macedonian, Vlachian, Arvanitic, Latin Catholic, and Jewish minorities of Greece.

Born Christian Orthodox, he adhered to Islam when 36, devoted to ideas of Muhyieldin Ibn al Arabi. Greek citizen of Turkish origin, Prof. Megalommatis studied and/or worked in Turkey, North Cyprus Greece, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Russia, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, UAE and Somalia.