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The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
Harper Perennial
January 2003
On Sale: January 7, 2003
208 pages ISBN: 0060516054 EAN: 0780060516055 Paperback
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction History
For 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 was seen as an outer darkness
of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to
learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won
victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in
the marketplace. In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned
authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished
reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sense of
how it had been overtaken, overshadowed, and dominated by
the West. In a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil,
Lewis shows how the Middle East turned its attention to
understanding European weaponry, industry, government,
education, and culture. He also describes how some Middle
Easterners fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, while
others asked not "Who did this to us?" but rather "Where did
we go wrong?" With a new Afterword that addresses September 11 and its
aftermath, What Went Wrong? is an urgent, accessible book
that no one who is concerned with contemporary affairs will
want to miss.
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