LEADER 04248nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910534557103321 005 20210114064300.0 010 $a0-19-028238-X 010 $a1-281-34672-1 010 $a0-19-802393-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579504 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0001452035 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000184069 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169952 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184069 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215533 035 $a(PQKB)11526502 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC431051 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579504 100 $a20130902d1994 my 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIslam and the West /$fBernard Lewis 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1993 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 217 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-509061-6 330 8 $aEssays discuss the interaction of Europe and its Islamic neighbors, the difficulties of translating classic Arabic, Arab fundamentalism, and life in the Islamic world today.$bHailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe. Eminent French historian Robert Mantran has written of Lewis's work: "Howcould one resist being attracted to the books of an author who opens for you the doors of an unknown or misunderstood universe, who leads you within to its innermost domains: religion, ways of thinking, conceptions of power, culture-an author who upsets notions too often fixed, fallacious, or partisan." In Islam and the West, Bernard Lewis brings together in one volume eleven essays that indeed 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 theidea of patriotism from the West. Lewis offers a revealing look at Edward Gibbon's portrait of Muhammad in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (unlike previous writers, Gibbon saw the rise of Islam not as something separate and isolated, nor as a regrettable aberration from the onward march of the church, but simply asa part of human history); he offers a devastating critique of Edward Said's controversial book, Orientalism; and he gives an account of the impediments to translating from classic Arabic to other languages (the old dictionaries, for one, are packed with scribal errors, misreadings, false analogies, and etymological deductions that pay little attention to the evolution of the language). And he concludes with an astute commentary on the Islamic world today, examining revivalism,fundamentalism, the role of the Shi'a, and the larger question of religious co-existence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews. A matchless guide to the background of Middle East conflicts today, Islam and the West presents the seasoned reflections of an eminent authority on one of the most intriguing and little understood regions in the world. 606 $aIslam$xRelations$xChristianity 606 $aChristianity and other religions$xIslam 606 $aMiddle East$2HILCC 606 $aRegions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 615 0$aIslam$xRelations$xChristianity 615 0$aChristianity and other religions$xIslam 615 7$aMiddle East 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 676 $a303.48/25604 700 $aLewis$b Bernard$f1916-2018.$0765692 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bStDuBDS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910534557103321 996 $aIslam and the West$92676594 997 $aUNINA