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From Babel To Dragomans: Interpreting The Middle East

Bernard Lewis

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Swansea Pals

Bernard Lewis

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From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

Bernard Lewis

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The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

Bernard Lewis

In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, and Saudi oil money, on the rest of the Islamic world.

The Crisis of Islam ranges widely through thirteen centuries of history, but in particular it charts the key events of the twentieth century leading up to the violent confrontations of today: the creation of the state of Israel, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the September 11th attacks on the United States.

While hostility toward the West has a long and varied history in the lands of Islam, its current concentration on America is new. So too is the cult of the suicide bomber. Brilliantly disentangling the crosscurrents of Middle Eastern history from the rhetoric of its manipulators, Bernard Lewis helps us understand the reasons for the increasingly dogmatic rejection of modernity by many in the Muslim world in favor of a return to a sacred past. Based on his George Polk Award–winning article for The New Yorker, The Crisis of Islam is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Usama bin Ladin represents and why his murderous message resonates so widely in the Islamic world.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2003

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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

Bernard Lewis

For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace.

In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sense of how it had been overtaken, overshadowed, and dominated by the West. In a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil, Lewis shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry, industry, government, education, and culture. He also describes how some Middle Easterners fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, while others asked not "Who did this to us?" but rather "Where did we go wrong?"

With a new Afterword that addresses September 11 and its aftermath, What Went Wrong? is an urgent, accessible book that no one who is concerned with contemporary affairs will want to miss.

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Islam: La Guerra E La Speranza Intervista a Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis; Fiamma Nirenstein

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La Crisis Del Islam

Bernard Lewis

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The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

Bernard Lewis

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United States and the Middle East

Bernard Lewis

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The Kingly Crown: Keter Malkhut

Bernard Lewis; Solomon Ibn Gabirol; Andrew Lee Gluck

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The New Terrorism: Threat And Response

Bernard Lewis; New York New York Foreign Affairs Staff; Richard K. Betts; William J. Perry; Fouad Ajami; Ahmed Rashid; Philip Zelikow; Milton Bearden; Jessica Stern; Gideon Rose

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The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam

Bernard Lewis

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Other editions: 1980

The Political Language of Islam

Bernard Lewis

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Other editions: Softcover - 1991, Hardcover - 1900

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What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

Bernard Lewis

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The Arabs in History

Bernard Lewis

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Other editions: Softcover - 1993

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Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

Bernard Lewis

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Other editions: Softcover - 1993, Hardcover - 1993

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The Emergence of Modern Turkey

Bernard Lewis

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Other editions: Softcover - 2001, Softcover - 1968

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The Muslim Discovery of Europe

Bernard Lewis

The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is one of the great sagas of world history. 30 b/w illustrations.

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Other editions: Softcover - 1985, 1982

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A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters, and History

Bernard Lewis

In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have traveled to the lands of the Middle East, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. But it was never a one-way journey. In this spirited collection of Western views of the Middle East and Middle Eastern views of the West, Bernard Lewis gives us a rich overview of two thousand years of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration. We hear from Napoleon, St. Augustine, T. E. Lawrence, Karl Marx and Ibn Khaldun. We peer into Queen Elizabeth's business correspondence, strike oil with Freya Stark and follow the footsteps of Mark Twain and Ibn Battuta, the Marco Polo of the East. This book is a delight, a treasury of stories drawn not only from letters, diaries and histories, but also from unpublished archives and previously untranslated accounts.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2000

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The Multiple Identities of the Middle East

Bernard Lewis

The Middle East is the birthplace of ancient civilizations, but most of the modern states that occupy its territory today are of recent origin, as are many key concepts of communal and individual identity and loyalty that the peoples of the region now confront. In The Multiple Identities of the Middle East, eminent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis elucidates the critical role of identity in the domestic, regional, and international tensions and conflicts of the Middle East today.

Examining religion, race and language, country, nation, and state, Lewis traces the rapid evolution of the identities of the Middle Eastern peoples, from the collapse of the centuries-old Ottoman Empire in 1918 to today's clash of old and new allegiances. He shows how, during the twentieth century, imported Western ideas such as liberalism, fascism, socialism, patriotism, and nationalism have transformed Middle Easterners' ancient notions of community, their self-perceptions, and their aspirations.

To this fascinating historical portrait, Lewis brings an understanding of the region and its peoples, as well as a profound sympathy for the plight that the modern world has imposed on them. The result is an invaluable tool in our understanding of an area that is of increasing global importance and concern today.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1999

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The Future of the Middle East: Predictions

Bernard Lewis

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The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years

Bernard Lewis

Illuminating both the history and the current climate in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis presents an authoritative, accessible examination, within a narrative framework, of the traditions of government; the Islamic religion and legal system; the economic infrastructure; and the social and cultural conventions. of photos. Maps.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1996

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Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery

Bernard Lewis

Our leading historian of Islam takes a revealing look at the Muslim-Christian conflict in the age of discovery. Bernard Lewis's balanced, insightful account of this pivotal era transcends the recent polemics about 1492, providing readers with a striking portrait of an age often obscured by the anger and complacency of today.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1994

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The Middle East: 2,000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day

Bernard Lewis

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Muslims in Europe

Bernard Lewis

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Other editions: Softcover - 1994