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Amenophis IV, also called Akhnaten the Heretic, was the father of King Tutankhamen and also the husband of Queen Nefertiti. Akhnaten was a great mystic, a superb artist, a convinced pacifist, a noble idealist. Yet he was opposed, hated, defeated, and destroyed by the existing selfish, externalized and materialized, orthodox priestly leaders when he was only twenty-six years old. His ambition? To bring a new and better society.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 6 : Islamic Cultures, Egypt > # 60