Islam and the West / Bernard Lewis.

By: Lewis, Bernard, 1916-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c1993. Description: ix, 217 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0195076192 (alk. paper); 0195090616 (pbk.) :; 9780195076196Subject(s): Middle East -- Relations -- Europe. -- -- | -- Europe -- Relations -- Middle East | Christianity and other religions -- IslamDDC classification: 303.48'25604 LOC classification: DS63.2.E8 | L47 1993Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	303.4825604 LEI 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		6103

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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.

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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