With this major revision of his classic The Middle East and the West (1964), a leading Middle East historian of our time offers a definitive and now more-timely-than-ever history of Western-Middle Eastern relations from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Fully revised to cover the v...
I read Bernard Lewis' The Crisis of Islam as part of a seasonal challenge at the College Students group on Goodreads. I have never embraced Lewis' approach to the Middle East—or more specifically, the Arab World—or Islam, thinking that he often takes a reductionist point-of-view that serves to re...
ان تجد نفسك يوما بين ليلة وضحاها بين حور عين لا يلبسون عن خدمتكعلى يمينك خضرة و اشجار لا تملك امامها سوى المكوس للاستظلال بها وعلى يسارك ماتيسر من خمر وميسر وانصاب وازلام , فماذا انتا بفاعل وامامك سور الجنةفلا تملك سوى ان تحرق كالخمسة الفدائيين وانت تقول " نموت فدائا لسيدنا علاء الدين املا فى الع...
Illuminating the legacy of slavery in the region where it lasted longest, from the days of warrior slaves and palace eunuchs and concubines to the final drive for abolition, Bernard Lewis examines the romantic myth of the Middle East as a racial utopia. With twenty four rare and intriguing full-c...
There must have been many who expected that the Ismaili principality founded by Hasan-i Sabbah would, on his death, conform to this lamentably normal pattern of Muslim government in this period.In 1126, two years after the succession of Buzurgumid, Sultan Sanjar launched an attack which put the q...