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"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."
- Virginia Woolf
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| | What Went Wrong?:
Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
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| | by Bernard Lewis
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ZIN Product Number: 10037603
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 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 192 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0195144201
Average Reader Review:    (Based on 4 reviews.)
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For many 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, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first in the battlefield and the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life. In this intriguing volume, Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed--how they had been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. Lewis provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. He shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry and military tactics, commerce and industry, government and diplomacy, education and culture. Lewis highlights the striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the 18th to the 20th centuries through thought-provoking comparisons of such things as Christianity and Islam, music and the arts, the position of women, secularism and the civil society, the clock and the calendar. Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis is one of the West's foremost authorities on Islamic history and culture. In this striking volume, he offers an incisive look at the historical relationship between the Middle East and Europe.
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Factual Errors, Factual Errors, Factual Errors, Fac....
-- A reviewer, a ph.d. student in ME studies, NY, July 8, 2002
Also Recommended: Edward Said: Covering Islam, Orientalism. Karen Armstrong: A History of God, A Biography of the Prophet.
Does Hannan know more than a Princeton Professor?
-- Alejandro Miro, an attorney, May 7, 2002
Also Recommended: If you insist on a diet of Bernard, you may wish to conclude with this digestif - Edward Said, Orientalism.
Hannan..
-- Jason Anders, professor at Duke University., April 17, 2002
What Went Wrong With Bernard Lewis?
-- Jason W. Hannan, here., February 14, 2002
Also Recommended: David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: Peace to End All Peace : The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (Owl Books, 1989).
| |  | | | | Preface | vii | | Introduction | 3 | | Chapter 1 The Lessons of the Battlefield | 18 | | Chapter 2 The Quest for Wealth and Power | 35 | | Chapter 3 Social and Cultural Barriers | 64 | | Chapter 4 Modernization and Social Equality | 82 | | Chapter 5 Secularism and the Civil Society | 96 | | Chapter 6 Time, Space, and Modernity | 117 | | Chapter 7 Aspects of Cultural Change | 133 | | Conclusion | 151 | | Afterword | 161 | | Notes | 163 | | Index | 173 |
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