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by Bernard W. Lewis
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Hailed by "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 relationship between the Middle East and Europe over the last three centuries.
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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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The Treaty Of Carlowitz has a special importance in the history of the Ottoman Empire, and even, more broadly, in the history of the Islamic world, as the first peace signed by a defeated Ottoman Empire with victorious Christian adversaries.
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- Title What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
- Author Bernard W. Lewis
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
- Publication date 2002-01-24
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780195144208 / 0195144201
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.57 x 5.79 x 0.84 in (21.77 x 14.71 x 2.13 cm)
- Reading level 1370
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Theometrics: Academic
- Category History - General History
- Library of Congress subjects Middle East - History - 1517-
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001036214
- Dewey Decimal Code 956.015
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- Business Week, 01/28/2002, Page 20
- Choice, 09/01/2002, Page 166
- Christian Century, 09/11/2002, Page 34
- Library Journal, 02/15/2002, Page 160
- New York Times, 01/27/2002, Page 9
- Publishers Weekly, 01/07/2002, Page 59
- Time, 02/18/2002, Page 73
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