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From Babel to Dragomans

Bernard Lewis

A collection of the most important essays on past and current history by the Western world's foremost Islamic scholar

Bernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG? and THE CRISIS OF ISLAM, Islam's calamitous and bitter decline. This book collects together his most interesting and significant essays, papers, reviews and lectures.

They range from historical subjects such as religion and politics in Islam and Judaism, the culture and people of Iran, the great mosques of Istanbul, Middle Eastern food and feasts, the Mughals and the Ottomans, the rise and fall of British power in the Middle East and North Africa, Islam and racism - to current history such as the significance of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Includes discussion of the problems of Western historians dealing with the Islamic world.

  • Classification : History
  • Pub Date : JAN 1, 2007
  • Imprint : Orion
  • Page Extent : 560
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780753818718
  • Price : INR 899
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Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis was Emeritus Professor of of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He was formerly Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS University of London from 1949 to 1974. He was a member of the British Academy the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Institut de France.

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