ISBN:
9780198023937
,
0198023936
,
9780195076196
,
0195076192
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 217 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lewis, Bernard, 1916- Islam and the West
DDC:
303.4825604
Keywords:
Islam Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Islam
;
Islam Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Islam
;
Christianity and other religions
;
Islam
;
Islam
;
Christendom
;
Interfaith relations
;
International relations
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization
;
Christianity
;
Middle East Relations
;
Europe
;
Europe Relations
;
Middle East
;
Europe
;
Middle East
;
Europe Relations
;
Middle East Relations
;
Middle East
;
Europe
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 with
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index. - Description based on print version record
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