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Title: Islam and the West by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0-19-509061-6 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.87 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Top Flight Scholarship
Comment: Bernard Lewis is not regarded as the foremost scholar of Middle East for naught. Islam And The West is a serious dissertation not so much of the Muslim culture and Islam faith, which are very large subjects, but how one should even attempt to understand them. This is a short, but very substantial book.
The author points out that many popular interpretations and beliefs about Islam, which are common currency in the Christian West, are actually incorrect. Still more notions which are common in the West have no real equivalents in the Islamic paradigm.
It is not hard to see, with a deep understanding of the Islam faith and the Muslim culture, that many "commonsense" formulations of, say, the Palestinian solution, simply won't work, or why most people could not comprehend the Islamic Revolution (actions of the Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers,) or of the Taliban. This is simply because the Islamic faith is not comparable to the Christian or Judaic faith, the Islamic state is not equivalent to the Western state, or any other state, for that matter, and that the Islamic teaching is central and all encompassing to the purpose in life of the "fundamentalist" Muslim. Our faith in such fundamental concepts as patriotism, peaceful co-existence, trade, and a good many others are either non-existent or even forbidden in the Islamic mind. Use of these concepts in formulating political solutions in that part of the world will inevitably fail.
Islam And The West is a must-read for politicians, journalists, scholars and ordinary Joes like myself, who have a serious interest in the Middle East issues. Besides the high quality of the studies presented, Bernard Lewis's writing style, especially with his careful choice of words, and elegantly crafted sentences, surely has helped make this book a classic.
Rating: 5
Summary: short but facinating work
Comment: Bernard Lewis, the dean of Middle East scholars, has been much lambasted by people like Edward Said, who have pummeled him with
all manner of polemics. None of that caterwauling masqueraded as debate has removed Lewis from his throne as the leading living
Middle East scholar. What makes Lewis such a marvel is that, in a field beset with politics, he neither seeks to eviscerate nor canonize his
subject. Here is a man who loves Arab culture and Arabic, but is capable of insightful commentary and analysis.
Lewis' work on how Islam and "the west" encountered each other, defined themselves as being in opposite of the "other," and the
conflicts that arose is still the standard. Even more enjoyable, Lewis writes with a wonderful readable style and presents the information in
an accessible way. I highly recommend this book and, if you like it, you should pick up his other classic, Middle East and the west.
Rating: 4
Summary: pretty good comparsion
Comment: In Islam and the West, Lewis takes a look at the relationship between Islam and the West. The have had conflict for since the early days of Islam. Lewis takes a look at conflicts such as the crusades, the three Muslim invasions of Europe-Moors in the Iberian Peninsula, Ottamans in Eastern Europe and the Tartars in Russia. He also looks at how the Muslim world in North Africa and the Middle East was one time more advanced then the Europe and how the two have reveresed positions.
What Lewis spends a lot of time on is the perceptions of Islam had of the West and the perceptions that the West had on Islam. He looks at each side tried to discredit the other and how each perceivced themselves. Lewis also deals with the rise of political Islam in the 20th century after the end of WWI after the break up of the Ottaman empire.
Overall, a pretty good comprision and hsitory like Lewis's other works.
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Title: What Went Wrong? : The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0060516054 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0679642811 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Middle East by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0684832801 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 07 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0195102835 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Muslim Discovery of Europe by Bernard Lewis ISBN: 0393321657 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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