About Prof. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis and his Books
Orientalist, Historian, Political Scientist, Dr. Megalommatis, 58, 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, Greece, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Russia, and carried out research trips throughout the Middle East, Northeastern Africa and Central Asia. His career extended from Research & Education, Journalism, Publications, Photography, and Translation to Website Development, Human Rights Advocacy, Marketing, Sales & Brokerage. He traveled in more than 80 countries in 5 continents.
He defends the Human and Civil Rights of Yazidis, Aramaeans, Turkmen, Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas, Berbers, Afars, Anuak, Furis (Darfur), Bejas, Balochs, Tibetans, and their Right to National Independence, demands international recognition for Kosovo, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and Transnistria, calls for National Unity in Somalia, and denounces Islamic Terrorism.
Freedom and National Independence for Catalonia, Scotland, Corsica, Euskadi (Bask Land), and (illegally French) Polynesia!
Break Down the Persian Tyranny of the Ayatullahs of Iran!
Freedom for 25 million Azeris in Southern Azerbaijan!
Books By Prof. M. S. Megalommatis
In Greek, English, Turkish, Albanian and Arabic
1. The Periplus of Hanno, King of Carthaginians
Preface (Travelers and Navigators in the Antiquity), Introduction (Hanno, his Periplus, and the navigation in the Atlantic Ocean during the Antiquity), Text and Translation, Commentary (39 notes), Historical Context (ch. 1. Canaanites and Phoenicians in Western Mediterranean and Northeastern Africa during the 2nd millennium and the 1st half of the 1st millennium BCE – ch. 2. Northwest Africa and Carthage till the Roman occupation), and Appendices (commented pictures and newly prepared maps illustrating the regions concerned); Stohastis Publishing House, Athens, 1991, 108p. (for a text of only ca. 650 words narrating the Carthaginian mission sent by King Hanno to navigate up to the coast of today’s Sierra Leone at the middle of the 5th c. BCE)
Reviews:
2. The Adventures of Wenamun
(first Modern Greek translation of an Egyptian Hieratic text – translation effectuated from the Hieroglyphic transliteration of the original text). Preface (The first published, direct translation of an Ancient Egyptian text into Modern Greek), Introduction (on Wenamun and his text), Text and Translation, Commentary (114 notes), and Appendices (supplement with documentation on Egyptian Hieroglyphics, commented pictures and a newly prepared map illustrating the regions concerned); Stohastis Publishing House, Athens, 1992, 160p. (for a text of only 10p. narrating the trip of Wenamun, Priest of Amun of Thebes, to Byblus of Phoenicia, then ruled by the Tsekker, a remnant of the Sea Peoples, at 1060 BCE)
Reviews:
https://www.academia.edu/23395318/The_Adventures_of_Wenamun_Egyptian_priest_of_Amun_of_Thebes_in_Phoenicia_-_edition_Prof._M._S._Megalommatis
3. The Ship of Suleyman
Preface, Translation (made from the English translation of the Farsi original text), Commentary (257 notes in total), and commented pictures; Stohastis Publishing House, Athens, 1993, 304p. (lengthy text narrating the deeds of the imperial Persian diplomatic mission of Shah Suleyman to the King of Siam at 1687 – 88, a period during which the Greek origin Ottoman citizen Constantine Yerakis, who had been proselytized to Catholicism, became member of the SocietasJesu (Jesuit), and was hired as a political agent of the King of France, was appointed prime minister in Siam; as the text is reflects the imperial Persian Safevid culture, the commentary is mostly focused on this.)
Reviews:
https://www.academia.edu/23396049/Safina-i_Sulaymani_Shah_Sulaymans_diplomatic_missions_deeds_in_Thailand_-_edition_M._S._Megalommatis
4. The Periplus of the Red Sea
(of an anonymous Alexandrian Egyptian author). Preface (The academic historical research and the Periplus of the Red Sea), Introduction (The Commerce between the Roman Empire and the East, and the Periplus of the Red Sea / it totals 145 pages, and the text’s 255 footnotes are printed in font size 7.5), Text and Translation, Commentary and Appendices (supplement with documentation on products and winds, commented pictures and newly prepared maps illustrating the regions concerned); Stohastis Publishing House, Athens, 1994, 288p. (for a text of 24p. narrating the details of the trade and navigation between Egypt and the East African coast up to today’s Tanzania or, alternatively, through the coastlands of Yemen, Oman, Pakistan and India to Indochina and China; all the related land and desert routes are additionally mentioned in the text)
Reviews:
https://www.academia.edu/23401500/The_Periplus_of_the_Red_Erythraean_Sea_O_Periplous_tes_Erythras_Thalasses_-_edition_Muhammad_Shamsaddin_Megalommatis._A_Book_Review
5. The Book of the Travels (SeferHa’masaoth) of Benjamin of Tudela
Preface, Introduction, Translation, Commentary (605 notes totaling 128 pages of the book), Bibliography, Appendices (newly prepared maps illustrating the regions concerned), Stohastis Publishing House, Athens, 1994, 272p. (for a text of ca. 90 p. narrating the details of the explorative travel undertaken by the Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela in various parts of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean as a quest for the Ten lost Tribes of Israel; as the project was collective, I contributed most of the Introduction and of the Commentary, whereas the parts related to Italy and the Eastern Roman Empire were analyzed and commented by the Greek historian A. Savvides; in addition, I supervised the translation made from the English translation of the Medieval Hebrew original text).
Reviews:
https://www.academia.edu/23546817/The_Book_of_the_Travels_Sefer_haMasaoth_of_Benjamin_of_Tudela_and_his_Search_for_the_Ten_Lost_Tribes_of_Israel_-_a_book_review_of_the_Greek_edition
6. The Six Stars of the Orient
Domos Publishing House, Athens, 1994, 224p. A historical, archeological, religious, philosophical and ideological itinerary in Southeastern Turkey; each of the six main chapters is dedicated to the following cities and/or provinces: Edessa of Osrhoene – Urfa, Commagene (NemrutDagh), Amida – Diyarbakir, Margdis – Mardin, Nisibis – Nusaybin, and Thospitis – Van; also: Preface, Postscript (the terms of the Noble Order of the Kurdish QuattuorCoronati), Vocabulary, and Appendices (commented pictures and newly prepared maps illustrating the regions concerned). The book consists in the first extensive coverage of Mithraism, Manichaeism, the Assyrian – Babylonian Religion, the Aramaean culture, and the Oriental (Nestorian and ‘Monophysite’) Christianity in Greece.
Reviews:
https://www.academia.edu/23483287/The_Six_Stars_of_the_Orient_%CE%88%CE%BE%CE%B9_%CE%86%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%91%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%82_-_A_Cultural_and_Historical_Itinerary_in_South-Eastern_Turkey_by_Prof._Megalommatis
The integral text of the book is available here:
https://6astratisanatolis.wordpress.com/
7. The Greek – Turkish relationship and the Balkans
KibrisVakfi, Istanbul, 1994, 80p. (a historical analysis of the misinterpretations of Ancient, Medieval and Modern History detected within the modern nationalist Greek political ideology and their implications in the recent Balkan problems)
Available for purchase:
http://www.pandora.com.tr/yayinevi.aspx?id=1055 http://www.pandora.com.tr/urun.aspx?id=21755
Review:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/522802
8. Turk – Yunan Iliskileri ve Balkanlar. Bir Tarihci Gozu ile Bugunun Sorunlari
KibrisVakfi, Istanbul, 1994, 80p.
Turkish translation of the above book no 7
Review:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/522748
9. Mardheniet Turko – Greke dhe Ballkani. Nje Vleresim Historik i problemeve te sotme (Fondacioni Qipriot)
The Albanian Center in Istanbul, 1995, 62 p.
Albanian translation of the above book no 7
Review:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/522808
10. Pre-Christian Egypt and its contribution to the World History (Masrqabl al Islam)
Selected works translated into Arabic, Cairo, 1998, 220p.
A representative selection of my publications about Pre-Christian Egypt, namely:
a) Egypt
b) The Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the 13th century BCE and the Sea Peoples
c) Psammetichus I, II, III, IV, V, VI, plus: Greek presence in Egypt at the times of the Psammetichus (Libyan) dynasty
d) Horus
e) the temple of Isis at Philae
f) the Temple of Horus at Edfu
g) the Temple of Hathor at Denderah
h) Ostanism, a Perso- Greco-Egyptian religious syncretism of the Late Antiquity
Review:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/567543
11. Meluhha, Gerrha and the Emirates
Introduction to the Ancient History of the Emirates, Saarbrucken – Germany, 2012, 69 p.
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