TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Bernard
TI  - Islam and the West
SN  - 0195076192 (alk. paper)
AV  - DS63.2.E8 L47 1993
U1  - 303.48'25604  
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  -  Middle East -- Relations -- Europe
KW  -  Europe -- Relations -- Middle East
KW  - Christianity and other religions -- Islam
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index; TOC; Europe and Islam --
Legal and historical reflections on the position of Muslim populations under non-Muslim rule --
Translation from Arabic --
The Ottoman obsession --
Gibbon on Muhammad --
The question of Orientalism --
Other people's history --
The return of Islam --
The Shi'a in Islamic history --
Country and freedom --
Religious coexistance and secularism; Sociology
N2  - 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  Read more...
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ER  -