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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
- John Locke
(1632 - 1704)
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| | A Middle East Mosaic:
Fragments of Life, Letters and History
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| | by Bernard Lewis
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ZIN Product Number: 10180975
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 469 pages
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0679451919
| |  | | | From The Publisher
In a spirited reappraisal of Western views of the East and Eastern views of the West, Bernard Lewis gives us an overview of two thousand years of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration." "Western businessmen - from the arms dealers who supplied Saladin with weapons to fight the Crusaders to the first oil prospectors - have seen great possibilities in the markets of the Middle East. And throughout the centuries, East and West have met in battle. We witness the outbreak of the Crimean War with Karl Marx and enter Egypt with Napoleon. We visit Baghdad and Cairo with George F. Kennan during World War II.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Illuminating excerpts from a wealth of cultural sources, including commentary on the American Revolution by a Morrocan ambassador, Machiavelli on the Turks, and an inside look at Voltaire's unusual accounting methods, brought together in celebration of diversity and cultural exchange.
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Comparison is the beginning of all serious scholarship, and Bernard Lewis is the greatest scholar of the Middle East in the second half of the twentieth century because his knowledge of other regions, too, gives him a rich basis for comparison with the Arab, Turkish, Persian, and Jewish worlds. No other Middle East expert could have compiled this collection, only an authentic Renaissance man. (Robert Kaplan, author of Balkan Ghosts) —Robert Kaplan
What a treasure of accounts and documents Bernard Lewis has found for us! This is the kind of book I wish I had had when writing my own chapter on Islam in The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Bernard Lewis is living testimony to the ability of an outsider to know and enter into another culture and illuminate it for the larger public. His opus is remarkable, and his productivity increases with age. A model for the rest of us. What will he give us next? (David Landes, author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations) —David Landes
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