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Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal), as "a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world" (Baltimore Sun), and as "the doyen of MiddleEastern studies" (New York Times), Lewis is nothing less than a national treasure, a trusted voice that politicians, journalists, historians, and the general...

In this enlightening and highly-praised collection of essays, extensively revised, Lewis explores the vast common heritage shared by Islam and the West, the history of the troubled relationship, and the perceptions each side holds of the other. This is a matchless guide to the backgroud of Middle East conflicts today from an eminent authority.

A collection of the most important essays on past and current history by the Western world's foremost Islamic scholar

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Professor Bernard Lewis looks back over his long career as a world-renowned historian of the Middle East, taking readers from the discovery of the Crusades as a young boy in London, to the great upheavals of the Arab Spring

Der international renommierte Islamwissenschaftler Bernard Lewis schildert in seinem Standardwerk souverän und anschaulich die Geschichte der Beziehungen zwischen Juden und Muslimen von der Entstehung des Islam bis zur massenhaften Vertreibung von Juden aus islamischen Ländern im Zuge der Staatsgründung Israels.

A brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subject

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Bernard Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East. With the departure of imperial powers, the region must now, on its own, resolve the political, economic, cultural, and societal problems that prevent it from accomplishing the next stage in the advance of civilization. There is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the other, he explains, to provide the basis for an ad...

Longtime Winchester resident and clinical psychologist, Bernie Lewis, has had a lifelong interest in people, the things they do, and what makes a person unique. The seventeen profiles selected for inclusion represent some of Winchester's most giving members of the community from all walks of life. Their stories and contributions are heartwarming, inspirational and masterfully told.

Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterfully translated into English by Bernard Lewis, many for the first time. These poems come from diverse languages and traditions--Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew--and span more than a thousand years. Together they provide a fascinating and unusual window into Middle Eastern history. Lewis, one of...

Cubierta posterior: El cambio y la evolución constantes de la identidad de los individuos y de los grupos en Oriente Medio constituyen el tema central de este libro. Bernard Lewis examina sucesivamente: países y fronteras, explicando el mapa, sus nombres y líneas divisorias, la religión y la comunidad, el idioma, junto a la emergencia reciente de identidades y afirmaciones étnicas, la lealtad a un lugar, la percepción de Oriente Medio del "Otr...

The memoirs of the bestselling author of What Went Wrong? and preeminent historian of the Middle East, from his wartime service in Cairo to the Arab Spring

In spite if its astonishing impact upon the modern world, the civilization of Islam is still Terra Incognita for many in the West. The thirteen contributors to this volume, all eminent specialists, aim to remedy that situation. Islam itself, and the peoples who accepted it, come first in the story.

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.

Paperback edition of this bestselling examination of the political history of a much misunderstood faith. "Lewis is a trusted commentator... he gives an excellent account of the concept of jihad" "Spectator

Internationally recognized as one of our greatest historians of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis investigates the motivations behind the September 11 attacks and the larger development of an Islamic holy war against the United States. Over time, with the decline of Islamic power and the rise of the West, Muslims interpreted the Koranic injunction of "jihad" to mean not just a struggle for God, but actual armed struggle against all "infidels" in ...

A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this has produced.

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