What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

Name: What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
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ISBN: 9780195144208

ISBN-10: 0195144201

ISBN-13: 9780195144208

Edition: 2002

Authors: Bernard Lewis

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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 which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first in the battlefield and the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life. In this intriguing volume, Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had…

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List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/24/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 8.50" wide x 5.59" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


What Went Wrong


Introduction



The Lessons of the Battlefield



The Quest for Wealth and Power



Social and Cultural Barriers



Modernization and Social Equality



Secularism and the Civil Society



Time, Space, and Modernity



Aspects of Cultural Change


Conclusion


Afterword


Notes


Index