The Leader had the honor of interviewing Tom Wegner a few years ago during the beginning of our series Israel at War – he’s the Nameless One’s friend, and now we’re swinging back around to him with some very important information.

Wegner has recently had a new book published, called Abrahamic Revolution – and this book reaches out for peace in the Arab world through its innovative reasoning.

Significantly, Amazon approved the Arabic edition of the Abrahamic Revolution which, Wegner says, is rare in that it’s, “a Jewish – Zionist voice that speaks to the Arabic space and offers a common path to peace and mutual understanding, that bridges Zionism and Islam and speaks of a shared Abrahamic identity.”

The book “claims the right of the Jews to a national home in Israel from the Quran, from the Sharia, from the Arab culture, shared history and Abrahamic traditions.

“This is also a clear message to the Israeli cultural community: Go East. Talk to the space in your language and in his language. Make a new voice, needed today more than ever: not only the sound of bombs and the language of power, but also the language of creation, the offer of dialogue, the shared vision, the reaching out for peace. If you don’t do this, who will? IDF spokesperson? The politicians ? This is the time to understand what time it is.

“From the moment the Abrahamic Revolution was published in English, it has provoked a chain of events that has led to dozens of interviews and articles in the Muslim world. I was interviewed in Arab media from Lebanon to Morocco, held conversations and meetings with Muslim clergy and academia from Indonesia to Iraq. We’ve reached many agreements, we’ve built many bridges.

“We have established a global Abrahamic movement, with branches from Somaliland to Pakistan through Gaza and Hebron, that builds a common alternative to Muslim brothers and extremist movements, and creates a new narrative that highlights the common. A new bookcase, and the Abrahamic Revolution is only one book in it.

“New ideas of inter-religious bridging, political Abrahamism and Abrahamic Confederation have begun to attract people from all parts of the Abrahamic space. The waiting list for the Arabic edition of The Revolution began to get longer and include addresses in Baghdad, Doha, Ramallah and Beirut. The pressure began to become more and more palpable as I understood that many in the Arab world are intrigued by this very move, a Zionist voice addressing the Arabic reader in his language and claims from the Quran, and that this book will reach very important eyes.

“From that moment, I understood that everything here is a test. Not just the content of the book itself: how it looks like and how it is mediated, what is the level of translation and what is the degree of observance to the internal codes, like the acceptable way to quote the Quran and more.

“This was the beginning of an amazing journey, worth a book in itself, in which we found an answer (complicated) to the question, ‘How can an Israeli author publish a book in Arabic that will find its place in libraries in the Arab world?’”

You can purchase the book here.

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)