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 On The Battlefield And In The Marketplace, Then In Almost Every Aspect Of Public And Even Private Life. In This 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. He Describes How Some Middle Easterners Fastened Blame On A Series Of Scapegoats, Both External And Internal, While Others Asked, Not Who Did This To Us? But Rather Where Did We Go Wrong? And, As A Natural Consequence, How Do We Put It Right? Lewis Highlights The Striking Differences Between The Western And Middle Eastern Cultures From The Eighteenth To The Twentieth Centuries With 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.--jacket. The Lessons Of The Battlefield -- The Quest For Wealth And Power -- Social And Cultural Barriers -- Modernization And Social Equality -- Secularism And The Civil Society -- Time, Space, And Modernity -- Aspects Of Cultural Change. Bernard Lewis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 163-172) And Index.
Categories:
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Politics & Government
- International & World Politics
- Middle Eastern
- International & World Politics
- Politics & Government
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Author : Lewis, Bernard
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2002-01-24
Number Of Pages : 192
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0195144201
ISBN-13 : 9780195144208
Item weight : 0.65 lb
Dimensions : 0.8 in x 5.6 in x 8.4 in
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