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Arabs in Historyby Bernard LewisISBN 0091055512 (0-09-105551-2)
Softcover, Micro Data Base Systems, Incorporated (m d b s)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabs in History'Book summary: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, from pre-Islamic times to the present-day. In a concise and readable account, Lewis examines the awakening that accompanied the advent of Islam and the political, religious, and social developments that transformed the Arab kingdom into an Islamic empire. He brings the edition up-to-the-minute with an account of recent events in the Middle East and analyzes the forces, internal and external, that have shaped the modern Arab world. Lewis shows how Western inventions and institutions have shattered the old structures and the traditional way of life, affecting every Arab, and causing a still unsatisfied demand for social, political, and cultural renewal.
Incisive and intriguing, this highly regarded and timely work--previously translated into Arabic, as well as many other European, Asian, and Middle Eastern languages--is sure to advance a greater understanding of the Arab past and present. [via]More editions of Arabs in History:
- The Arabs in History: ISBN 0192803107 (0-19-280310-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Arabs in History: ISBN 0061310298 (0-06-131029-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - The Arabs in History: ISBN 0192852582 (0-19-285258-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Arabs in History: ISBN 0091055512 (0-09-105551-2)
Softcover, Micro Data Base Systems, Incorporated (m d b s)
- The Arabs in History: ISBN 0192803107 (0-19-280310-7)
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Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gasesby Bernard Lewis , Guenther Von ElbeISBN 0124467512 (0-12-446751-2)
Hardcover, Academic Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases'Book summary:Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases, Third Edition provides the chemist, physicist, and engineer with the scientific basis for understanding combustion phenomena. [via]
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The Emergence of Modern Turkeyby Bernard LewisISBN 0195003446 (0-19-500344-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emergence of Modern Turkey'Book summary:Written by renowned scholar Bernard Lewis, this book has long established itself as the preferred one-volume history of modern Turkey. Now in its third edition, this book has been updated to include the most recent information on Turkey and addresses such issues as Turkey's emergence as a Western-oriented power; its inclusion in the European Union; its continued involvement with the politics of the Middle East as well as the politics of the Iraq-UN conflict; and the politically divisive issue of Kurdich violence and ethnic nationalism. [via]
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Islam: From the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinopleby Bernard LewisISBN 0061389242 (0-06-138924-2)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople: Politics and Warby Bernard LewisISBN 0195050878 (0-19-505087-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople: Politics and War'Book summary:This documentary history of Islam from the advent of the prophet Muhammed to the capture of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed, the Conqueror, is concerned with a period that extends from the 7th century to 1453; with a region that stretches from Western Arabia to embrace the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia, tropical Africa, and southern and eastern Europe; and with people and states, which, amid many diversities, share a common acceptance of the faith and law of Islam. Bernard Lewis, a widely-known authority on the Middle East, here translates from original sources and documents works that present the sweeping civilization of Islam in all its vastness and glory. [via]
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Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople: Religion and Societyby Bernard LewisISBN 0195050886 (0-19-505088-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople: Religion and Society'Book summary:This second volume examines the religion and structure of Islamic society. Bernard Lewis draws on a broad range of Islamic literature, including books on religious sects, politics and economics, philosophy and science, travel, biography and literary works, and even bureaucratic records from such disparate sources as the postal service and the judiciary. Comprehensive and cogently translated, these documents bring into sharp focus aspects of a world long neglected by Western historians. [via]
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Middle East and the Westby Bernard LewisISBN 0061312746 (0-06-131274-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Race and Color in Islamby Bernard LewisISBN 0061315907 (0-06-131590-7)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Race and Slavery in the Middle East: A Historical Enquiryby Bernard LewisISBN 0195053265 (0-19-505326-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Shaping of the Modern Middle Eastby Bernard LewisISBN 0195072820 (0-19-507282-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shaping of the Modern Middle East'Book summary:This classic work by the leading Middle East scholar of our time offers a definitive, insightful, and now more timely than ever history of Western-Middle Eastern relations from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Fully revised to cover the volatile developments of the last three decades, The Shaping of the Modern Middle East sheds light on the climax and sudden end of the cold war, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Arab-Israeli wars, the formation and activities of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the Persian Gulf War, and the Iranian revolution. Illuminating the region's geography, culture, history, language, and religion, Lewis explores the complex and often confusing issues of Arab nationalism, Islamic fundamentalism, and responses and reactions in the Middle East to centuries of Western influence, revealing the subtlety and sophistication of this dynamic civilization as no other scholar can. [via]
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle Eastby Bernard LewisISBN 0060516054 (0-06-051605-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East'Book summary:Bernard Lewis is the West's greatest historian and interpreter of the Near East. Books such as The Middle East and The Arabs in History are required reading for anybody who hopes to understand the region and its people. Now Lewis offers What Went Wrong?, a concise and timely survey of how Islamic civilization fell from worldwide leadership in almost every frontier of human knowledge five or six centuries ago to a "poor, weak, and ignorant" backwater that is today dominated by "shabby tyrannies ... modern only in their apparatus of repression and terror." He offers no easy answers, but does provide an engaging chronicle of the Arab encounter with Europe in all its military, economic, and cultural dimensions. The most dramatic reversal, he says, may have occurred in the sciences: "Those who had been disciples now became teachers; those who had been masters became pupils, often reluctant and resentful pupils." Today's Arab governments have blamed their plight on any number of external culprits, from Western imperialism to the Jews. Lewis believes they must instead commit to putting their own houses in order: "If the peoples of Middle East continue on their present path, the suicide bomber may become a metaphor for the whole region, and there will be no escape from a downward spiral of hate and spite, rage and self-pity, [and] poverty and oppression." Anybody who wants to understand the historical backdrop to September 11 would do well to look for it on these pages. --John Miller [via]
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