The Muslim Discovery of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Muslim Discovery of Europe write by Bernard Lewis. This book was released on 2001-10-17. The Muslim Discovery of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author examines the sources and nature of Muslim knowledge of the West. He explores the subtle ways in which Europe and Islam have influenced each other over seven centuries.
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Comments on Bernard Lewis' "The Muslim Discovery of Europe." - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comments on Bernard Lewis' "The Muslim Discovery of Europe." write by Thomas D. Goodrich. This book was released on 1983*. Comments on Bernard Lewis' "The Muslim Discovery of Europe." available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Muslim Discovery of Europe
The Muslim Discovery of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Muslim Discovery of Europe write by Bernard Lewis. This book was released on 1994. The Muslim Discovery of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using journals,letters,diaries & despatches,many newly translated,the author reveals the impact of the Muslim civilisation on primitive Europe & explores the subtle ways in which the two cultures influenced each other
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Race and Slavery in the Middle East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race and Slavery in the Middle East write by Bernard Lewis. This book was released on 1990. Race and Slavery in the Middle East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the time of Moses up to the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. But if the Middle East was the last region to renounce slavery, how do we account for its -- and especially Islam's -- image of racial harmony? This book explores these questions. The research presented in this book was first undertaken as part of a group project on tolerance and intolerance in human societies. The group project was never completed but the material gathered for the project on Islam stimulated the book's study of race and slavery in the Middle East, a subject that appears to have so far encouraged scant study. -- Publisher description.
Islam and the West
Islam and the West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam and the West write by Bernard Lewis. This book was released on 1994-10-27. Islam and the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe. Eminent French historian Robert Mantran has written of Lewis's work: "How could one resist being attracted to the books of an author who opens for you the doors of an unknown or misunderstood universe, who leads you within to its innermost domains: religion, ways of thinking, conceptions of power, culture--an author who upsets notions too often fixed, fallacious, or partisan." In Islam and the West, Bernard Lewis brings together in one volume eleven essays that indeed open doors to the innermost domains of Islam. Lewis ranges far and wide in these essays. He includes long pieces, such as his capsule history of the interaction--in war and peace, in commerce and culture--between Europe and its Islamic neighbors, and shorter ones, such as his deft study of the Arabic word watan and what its linguistic history reveals about the introduction of the idea of patriotism from the West. Lewis offers a revealing look at Edward Gibbon's portrait of Muhammad in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (unlike previous writers, Gibbon saw the rise of Islam not as something separate and isolated, nor as a regrettable aberration from the onward march of the church, but simply as a part of human history); he offers a devastating critique of Edward Said's controversial book, Orientalism; and he gives an account of the impediments to translating from classic Arabic to other languages (the old dictionaries, for one, are packed with scribal errors, misreadings, false analogies, and etymological deductions that pay little attention to the evolution of the language). And he concludes with an astute commentary on the Islamic world today, examining revivalism, fundamentalism, the role of the Shi'a, and the larger question of religious co-existence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. A matchless guide to the background of Middle East conflicts today, Islam and the West presents the seasoned reflections of an eminent authority on one of the most intriguing and little understood regions in the world.
