Author: BERNARD LEWIS
Title: From Babel to Dragomans. Interpreting the Middle East
Description: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 438. Bernard Lewis is internationally recognised as an outstanding scholar and historian of Middle Eastern and Islamic history, who has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books "What Went Wrong?" and "The Crisis Of Islam", Islam's calamitous and bitter decline. This book collects together his most interesting and significant essays, papers, reviews and lectures. They range from historical subjects such as religion and politics in Islam and Judaism, the culture and people of Iran, the great mosques of Istanbul, Middle Eastern food and feasts, the Mughals and the Ottomans, the rise and fall of British power in the Middle East and North Africa, Islam and racism - to current history such as the significance of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. This book includes discussion of the problems of Western historians dealing with the Islamic world. Several pieces have never been published before. ISBN: 9780297848844. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Title: From Babel to Dragomans. Interpreting the Middle East
Description: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 438. Bernard Lewis is internationally recognised as an outstanding scholar and historian of Middle Eastern and Islamic history, who has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books "What Went Wrong?" and "The Crisis Of Islam", Islam's calamitous and bitter decline. This book collects together his most interesting and significant essays, papers, reviews and lectures. They range from historical subjects such as religion and politics in Islam and Judaism, the culture and people of Iran, the great mosques of Istanbul, Middle Eastern food and feasts, the Mughals and the Ottomans, the rise and fall of British power in the Middle East and North Africa, Islam and racism - to current history such as the significance of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. This book includes discussion of the problems of Western historians dealing with the Islamic world. Several pieces have never been published before. ISBN: 9780297848844. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780297848844
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- Book number: 2378569
- Book number: 2378569
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