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As the Birthplace of three religions and many civilizations, the Middle East has for centuries been a center of knowledge and ideas, of techniques and commodities, and, at times, of military and political power. With the historical - and still gro...

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This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing ste...

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This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Praise for Bernard Lewis "For newcomers to the subject[el]Bernard Lewis is the man." "TIME Ma...

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Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "e;the doyen of Middle Eastern studies,"e; 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 n...

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`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the...

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`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the...

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In this classic work Bernard Lewis examines the key issues of Arab development - their identity, the national revival which cemented the creation of the Islamic state, and the social and economic pressures that destroyed the Arab kingdom and creat...

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New in paperback This documentary history uses the editor's own translations of original source materials to present the sweeping civilization of Islam in all its vastness and glory.

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The state of race relations in Islamic societies has often been the subject of optimistic descriptions. Sources as various as Toynbee and Malcolm X refer to a racial Utopia, a colour-blind society. This society is seen as the direct result of the ...

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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 cov...

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Lewis here collects his essays on the interaction of the Islamic world with the West. Dating back to the Middle Ages, this collection focuses in particular on each side's perception of the other, the impact of the West on the Middle East in modern...

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Bernard Lewis brings together in this volume eleven essays that 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 ...

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Bernard Lewis uses the year 1492, a year laden with epic events and riven by political debate, to explore the clash between the Jews, Christendom, and Islam, as well as that between the New World and the Old.

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A classic one volume hisyory of Turkey that has been in print since 1961, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, Third EdDition covers the emergence of a secular, democratic republic from an Islamic Empire. In a new chapter, Lewis discusses the origins o...

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Why did the most advanced civilization in the world lose its power and fall under the domination of others? This book examines how Middle Easterners responded to Western challenges in war, technology, sciences, religion, gender relations and other...

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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" ...

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Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "e;the doyen of Middle Eastern studies,"e; 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 n...

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Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "e;the world's foremost Islamic scholar"e; (Wall Street Journal ), as "e;a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of ...

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Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "e;the world's foremost Islamic scholar"e; (Wall Street Journal ), as "e;a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of ...

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Hailed as "e;the doyen of Middle Eastern studies"e; in The New York Times Book Review, Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "e;To read Mr. Lewis,"e; wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal, "e;is to be taken th...

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Hailed as "e;the doyen of Middle Eastern studies"e; in The New York Times Book Review, Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "e;To read Mr. Lewis,"e; wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal, "e;is to be taken th...

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What does jihad really mean? What is the Muslim conception of law? What is Islam's stance toward unbelievers? Probing literary and historical sources, Bernard Lewis traces the development of Islamic political language from the time of the Pro...

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The history of an extremist Islamic sect in the 11th-12th centuries whose terrorist methods gave the English language a new word: assassin.The word 'Assassin' was brought back from Syria by the Crusaders, and in time acquired the meaning of murder...

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A brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subjectIn this immensely readable and wide-ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle Eas...

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The memoirs of the greatest historian of the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis.After 9/11, people who had never given much thought to the politics of the Middle East found themselves wondering why there was such rage brewing in the region. Many...

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In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have journeyed to the lands of the middle east, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. Yet it was never a one way exchange. From t...

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This collection of 15 essays illuminates the evolution of political Islam from the era of the Prophet Muhammad to the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran.Under the auspices of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, Jose...

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Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases, Third Edition provides the chemist, physicist, and engineer with the scientific basis for understanding combustion phenomena.

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