Format:
1 online resource (434 pages)
ISBN:
9780198023937
Content:
Bernard Lewis brings together in this volume eleven essays that open doors to the innermost domains of Islam. Lewis ranges far and wide in these essays. He includes long pieces, such as his capsule history of the interaction--in war and peace, in commerce and culture--between Europe and its Islamic neighbors, and shorter ones, such as his deft study of the Arabic word watan and what its linguistic history reveals about the introduction of the idea of patriotism from the West. Offering valuable background to Middle East conflicts today, Islam and the West presents the reflections of an eminent authority on a little understood region of the world.
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- ENCOUNTERS -- 1. Europe and Islam -- 2. Legal and Historical Reflections on the Position of Muslim Populations Under Non-Muslim Rule -- STUDIES AND PERCEPTIONS -- 3. Translation from Arabic -- 4. The Ottoman Obsession -- 5. Gibbon on Muhammad -- 6. The Question of Orientalism -- 7. Other People's History -- ISLAMIC RESPONSE AND REACTION -- 8. The Return of Islam -- 9. The Shī'a in Islamic History -- 10. Country and Freedom -- 11. Religious Coexistence and Secularism -- Notes -- Bibliographical Appendix -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195090611
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195090611
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=431051
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