What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and in the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life. Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed, and he provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. Some Middle Easterners asked not `who did this to us?' but `where did we go wrong?'; while others fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, both internal and external - and the results are very much with us today.
Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -IslamIslamic studiesPolitical partiesMiddle EastSociology
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHERWeidenfeld & Nicolson
LENGTH180
LANGUAGEEN
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A British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies, and political commentator. He specializes in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West, and is especially famous in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire.
What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and in the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life. Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed, and he provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. Some Middle Easterners asked not `who did this to us?' but `where did we go wrong?'; while others fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, both internal and external - and the results are very much with us today.
Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -IslamIslamic studiesPolitical partiesMiddle EastSociology
RELEASED2002
PUBLISHERWeidenfeld & Nicolson
LENGTH180
LANGUAGEEN
A British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies, and political commentator. He specializes in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West, and is especially famous in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire.
