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What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
What Went Wrong Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
Author: Bernard Lewis
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 l...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195144208
ISBN-10: 0195144201
Publication Date: 12/2001
Pages: 180
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3.6 stars, based on 9 ratings
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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This book explains how the U.S. arrived at the current situation with Iran Iraq and the Muslims world. Lewis knows his stuff.
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Received this book from the book of the month club.Never read,
Never touched,looks interesting not my style.
The eclipse of the Middle East in the last three centuries and how the aftermath is felt to this day.
"A compelling book.One of our most distinguished historians throws a floodlight on that cruel divide between the West and the societies of Islam.Learned and urgent at the same time" - GEORGE P. SHULZ


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