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Hardship and discipline are not always punishment for past mistakes. It could be preparation for where you are going, but to get to that place, refinement is needed. The fullness of your true character is never on display until you face adversity and problems. The process to purfiy gold involves increase the heat so that all the hidden impurities rise to the surface and are exposed. If fire is needed to bring out the impurities of gold, if pre...

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Bernard Lewis, uno dei più celebri e autorevoli studiosi della civiltà mediorientale, propone in queste pagine una visione unitaria della multiforme vicenda del mondo musulmano e dei suoi problematici rapporti con l'Occidente: quindici secoli di guerra e coesistenza pacifica, di regni illuminati e regimi dittatoriali, di vette di eccellenza scientifica e letteraria e abissi di mise e terrore sanguinario. Con maestria divulgativa e spaziando da...

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Heute stehen islamische Gelehrte vor der Frage "Modernisierung oder Verwestlichung?". Von der Möglichkeit eines eigenständigen Weges der Modernisierung hängt die Zukunft des Islam und seines Verhältnisses zum Westen ab. Lewis untersucht in seinen Vorlesungen das traumatische Verhältnis zwischen der muslimischen und der westlichen Welt. Einst eine politische Macht und eine Kultur, die ihren Nachbarn in fast jeder Hinsicht überlegen war, befinde...

Now brought completely up to date, this classic study by one of the world's premier historians of the Middle East considers the achievement of the Arab peoples and their place in world history. 6 line illustrations.

This pamphlet is the 2007 Irving Kristol Lecture, delivered at the annual dinner of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2007. The 2007 Kristol Award was presented to Bernard Lewis, the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University, and long the free world's preeminent student and interpreter of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and the modern Middle East...

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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 Middle Eastern studies" (New York Times ), Lewis is nothing less than a national treasure, a trusted voice that politicians, journalists, historians, and the gen...

Using a common-sense approach to a complex subject, Dr. Lewis, a mother of autistic children herself, offers specific examples of food allergies and intolerances which impact health and behavior in children with autism or related developmental disorders, and provides gluten/casein-free recipes, lists of vitamins, minerals, and supplements, and much more.

The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by prejudice. For a long time this was simply the "normal" prejudice between neighboring people of different religions and ethnic origins. In the present age, however, hostility toward Israel and its peo...

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In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have traveled to the lands of the Middle East, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. But it was never a one-way journey. In this spirited collection of Western views of the Middle East and Middle Eastern views of the West, Bernard Lewis gives us a rich overview of two thousand years of commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration. ...

In this award-winning book, Bernard Lewis ("a historian of unrivaled skills, authority, and literary grace" -- The New York Times) traces the rapid evolution of the identities of the Middle Eastern peoples, from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 to contemporary clashes between old and new allegiances. Lewis shows how, during the twentieth century, imported Western ideas such as liberalism, fascism, socialism, patriotism, and nationali...

The Swansea Battalion was formed from local men by the Mayor of Swansea in the response to Lord Kitchener's famous appeal for volunteers. This, the first full history of the Battalion, covers early recruiting for the battalion in the Swansea area and its subsequent training in Swansea, Rhyl and Winchester, prior to departure, some 1, 200 strong, in December 1915 for the Western Front. As part of the 38th Welsh Division it participated in the a...