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"There are tones of voices that mean more than words."
- Robert Frost
(1874 - 1963)
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| | The Middle East:
A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
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| | by Bernard Lewis
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ZIN Product Number: 10185131
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 Format: Paperback, 443 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0684832801
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This "book is divided into three roughly equal sections of which the first gives an account of Middle Eastern events from the origins of Islam to the end of Ottoman expansion in the seventeenth century. The second analyzes Islamic society in essays on 'The State,' 'The Economy,' 'The Elites,' 'The Commonality,' 'Religion and Law,' and 'Culture.' . . . The book concludes with an account of clashes between Muslims and the Western nations since 1699." (New York Review of Books) Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
As the Birthplace of three religions and many civilizations, the Middle East has for centuries been a center of knowledge and ideas, of techniques and commodities, and, at times, of military and political power. With the historical - and still growing - importance of the Middle East in modern politics, historian Bernard Lewis's cogent and scholary writing brings a wider understanding of the cultures of the region to a popular audience. In this immensely readable and broad history, Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empires, the Roman and the Persian, whose disputes divided the region two thousand years ago; the development of monotheism and the growth of Christianity; the astonishingly rapid rise and spread of Islam over a vast area; the waves of invaders from the East and the Mongol hordes of Jengiz Khan; the rise of the Ottoman Turks in Anatolia, the Mamluks in Egypt and the Safavids in Iran; the peak and decline of the great Ottoman state; and the changing balance of power between the Muslim and Christian worlds. Within this narrative, Lewis details the myriad forces that have shaped the history of the Middle East: the Islamic religion and legal system; the traditions of government; the immense variety of trade and the remarkably wide range of crops; the elites - military, commercial, religious, intellectual and artistic - and the commonalty, including such socially distinct groups as slaves, women and non-believers. He finally weaves these threads together by looking at the pervasive impact in modern times of Western ideas and technology, and the responses and reactions they evoked. Rich with vivid detail and the knowledge of a great scholar, this brilliant survey of the history and civilizations of the Middle East reveals the huge Islamic contribution to European life, as well as the European contribution to the Islamic world.
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brilliant survey
-- Doyne Dawson, a teacher of Asian Studies in Korea, February 8, 2002
Also Recommended: Toby Huff, Rise of Early Modern Science - David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
| |  | | | | List of Maps | | | List of Illustrations | | | Preface | | | Introduction | 1 | | 1 | Before Christianity | 21 | | 2 | Before Islam | 33 | | 3 | Origins | 51 | | 4 | The 'Abbasid Caliphate | 75 | | 5 | The Coming of the Steppe Peoples | 86 | | 6 | The Mongol Aftermath | 102 | | 7 | The Gunpowder Empires | 111 | | 8 | The State | 133 | | 9 | The Economy | 157 | | 10 | The Elites | 179 | | 11 | The Commonalty | 205 | | 12 | Religion and Law | 218 | | 13 | Culture | 244 | | 14 | Challenge | 273 | | 15 | Change | 286 | | 16 | Response and Reaction | 305 | | 17 | New Ideas | 315 | | 18 | From War to War | 332 | | 19 | From Freedom to Freedom | 357 | | Notes | 388 | | Bibliographical Note | 394 | | Note on Calendars | 397 | | Chronology | 399 | | Maps | 407 | | Index | 419 |
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