Lewis Bernard Books
Books di Lewis Bernard editi da Oxford Univ Pr On Demand
Faith and Power
Lewis Bernard
edizioni Oxford Univ Pr on Demand collana Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (Hardcover), 2010
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" (Baltimore Sun ), and as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" (New York...
What Went Wrong
Lewis Bernard
edizioni Oxford Univ Pr on Demand collana Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (Hardcover), 2002
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...
The Emergence of Modern Turkey
Lewis Bernard
edizioni Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 2001
Written by renowned scholar Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey has established itself as the preferred one-volume history of modern Turkey. It covers the emergence of Turkey over two centuries, from the decline and collapse of the Ottoman Empire up to the present day. In a new chapter, Lewis discusses the...
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Lewis Bernard
edizioni Oxford Univ Pr on Demand collana Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (Hardcover), 1990
The Shaping of the Modern Middle East
Lewis Bernard
edizioni Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 1994
With this major revision of his classic The Middle East and the West (1964), a leading Middle East historian of our time offers a definitive 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...