What Went Wrong? : The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

Lewis, Bernard

ISBN 10: 075381675X / ISBN 13: 9780753816752

Verlag: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2002

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: What Went Wrong? : The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
• Verlag: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 075381675X
• ISBN-13: 9780753816752
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Acceptable

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Inhaltsangabe

A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this has produced.

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bernard Lewis was Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Formerly Professor of Middle Eastern History at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London, 1949-74.