The Resource What went wrong? : Western impact and Middle Eastern response, Bernard Lewis
What went wrong? : Western impact and Middle Eastern response, Bernard Lewis
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- Summary
- "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 learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and in the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life." "In this volume, Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed, how they had been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. Lewis provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. He shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry and military tactics, commerce and industry, government and diplomacy, education and culture. He describes how some Middle Easterners fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, both external and internal, while others asked, not "who did this to us?" but rather "where did we go wrong?" and, as a natural consequence, "how do we put it right?" Lewis highlights the striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries with thought-provoking comparisons of such things as Christianity and Islam, music and the arts, the position of women, secularism and the civil society, the clock and the calendar."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780195144208
- Label
- What went wrong? : Western impact and Middle Eastern response
- Title
- What went wrong?
- Title remainder
- Western impact and Middle Eastern response
- Statement of responsibility
- Bernard Lewis
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and in the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life." "In this volume, Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed, how they had been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. Lewis provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. He shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry and military tactics, commerce and industry, government and diplomacy, education and culture. He describes how some Middle Easterners fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, both external and internal, while others asked, not "who did this to us?" but rather "where did we go wrong?" and, as a natural consequence, "how do we put it right?" Lewis highlights the striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries with thought-provoking comparisons of such things as Christianity and Islam, music and the arts, the position of women, secularism and the civil society, the clock and the calendar."--BOOK JACKET
- Summary
- Explores the historical relationship between Europe and the Middle East, examining how the Islamic world came to be dominated by the West and discussing the differences between the two cultures from the 18th century to the 20th century
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2002
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- 158383
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1916-2018
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lewis, Bernard
- Dewey number
- 956.015
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Intended audience
- 1370L
- Intended audience source
- Lexile
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- 1370
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
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- Middle East
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- Western impact and Middle Eastern response
- Label
- What went wrong? : Western impact and Middle Eastern response, Bernard Lewis
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 10062889
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780195144208
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001036214
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm47101073
- 144876
- Label
- What went wrong? : Western impact and Middle Eastern response, Bernard Lewis
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Content type MARC source
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- 10062889
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- 22 cm
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780195144208
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001036214
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- unmediated
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- (OCoLC)ocm47101073
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