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  • A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History

    Author: Bernard LewisISBN-10: 0375758372ISBN-13: 9780375758379Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)Language: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2001Pages: 496Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.15h x 5.20w x 1.15d
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  • Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery

    Hailed as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" in The New York Times Book Review, Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field. "To read Mr. Lewis," wrote Fouad Ajami in The Wall Street Journal, "is to be taken through a treacherous terrain...
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  • Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East

    Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal ), as "a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world" (Baltimore Sun ),...
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  • From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

    Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as "the world's foremost Islamic scholar" (Wall Street Journal), as "a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world" (Baltimore Sun), and as...
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  • Islam and the West by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Islam and the West

    Hailed 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...
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  • Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

    Recent events have made an understanding of the turmoil in the Middle East more important than ever. In these essays, Bernard Lewis, a leading expert on Islam, gives essential background on Middle Eastern conflicts with the West and shows how Islam -- from its...
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  • Islam: From the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople Volume 2: Religion and Society by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Islam: From the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinoplevolume 2: Religion and Society

    This second volume examines the religion and structure of Islamic society. Bernard Lewis draws on a broad range of Islamic literature, including books on religious sects, politics and economics, philosophy and science, travel, biography and literary works, and even bureaucratic records from such disparate...
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  • Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire

    On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as "the Conqueror," launched the final assault against the walls of Constantinople and added that imperial capital, as coping stone; to the Empire that his fathers had conquered. As the Sultan's Imam...
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  • Land of Enchanters: Egyptian Short Stories from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Land of Enchanters: Egyptian Short Stories from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

    Several civilizations have risen, flourished and fallen in the valley of the Nile, each with its own religion, language, culture, institutions and style of life. Yet beneath them all a certain basic unity persisted. In few fields can this continuity of social life be...
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  • Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems

    Music of a Distant Drum marks a literary milestone. It collects 129 poems from the four leading literary traditions of the Middle East, all masterfully translated into English by Bernard Lewis, many for the first time. These poems come from diverse languages and traditions--Arabic,...
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  • Political Words and Ideas in Islam by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Political Words and Ideas in Islam

    This book brings together 11 essays on Islamic political thought by Bernard Lewis, the acknowledged doyen of Middle Eastern studies. Few historians have garnered such a broad audience as Lewis, whose works are widely read by scholars, politicians, journalists, and the general public.This latest...
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  • Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century

    Surveying the population and revenue of six Palestinian cities--Jerusalem, Hebron, Gaza, Ramie, Nabulus, and Safed--in the sixteenth-century, Amnon Cohen and Bernard Lewis consider the numbers, composition, and distribution of the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish population, and discuss the different headings of revenue, the manner...
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  • Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry

    From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia, trading the human plunder of wars and slave raids that...
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  • Swansea and the Second World War by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Swansea and the Second World War

    An overview of Swansea's experience during World War II, set out in a single volume for the first time. The port and industries of Swansea were key targets for the Nazis. From the start, the town prepared for the worst with air-raid shelters, anti-aircraft...
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  • The Arabs in History by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    The Arabs in History

    Now brought completely up to date, this classic study by one of the world's premier historians of the Middle East considers the achievement of the Arab peoples and their place in world history, from pre-Islamic times to the present-day. In a concise and readable...
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  • The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam by Lewis, Bernard W.
    Bernard Lewis

    The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam

    From a master historian, the definitive account of history's first terrorists An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established in Iran and Syria in the eleventh...
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  • The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

    In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes...
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  • The Emergence of Modern Turkey by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    The Emergence of Modern Turkey

    Written by renowned scholar Bernard Lewis, emThe Emergence of Modern Turkey/emhas established itself as the preferred one-volume history of modern Turkey. It covers the emergence of Turkey over two centuries, from the decline and collapse of the Ottoman Empire up to the present day....
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  • The End of Modern History in the Middle East by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    The End of Modern History in the Middle East

    Bernard Lewis looks at the new era in the Middle East. With the departure of imperial powers, the region must now, on its own, resolve the political, economic, cultural, and societal problems that prevent it from accomplishing the next stage in the advance of...
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  • The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    The Jews of Islam: Updated Edition

    This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes: the Islamophobic picture of the fanatical Muslim warrior,...
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  • The Middle East by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    The Middle East

    Renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years--from the birth of Christianity through the modern era, focusing on the successive transformations that have shaped it. Drawing on material from a multitude of sources, including the work...
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  • The Multiple Identities of the Middle East by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    The Multiple Identities of the Middle East

    The Middle East is the birthplace of ancient civilizations, but most of the modern states that occupy its territory today are of recent origin, as are many key concepts of communal and individual identity and loyalty that the peoples of the region now confront....
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  • The Shaping of the Modern Middle East by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    The Shaping of the Modern Middle East

    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...
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  • Wales' Unknown Hero: Soldier, Spy, Monk: The Life of Henry Coombe-Tennant, MC, of Neath by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    Wales' Unknown Hero: Soldier, Spy, Monk: The Life of Henry Coombe-Tennant, MC, of Neath

    A biography of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), whose family lived at Cadoxton Lodge near Neath and created Port Tennant at Swansea, Wales. Henry's mother, Winifred Coombe-Tennant, was a well-known British suffragette, political campaigner and psychic medium, and Henry was the result of an extra-marital affair...
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  • What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response by Lewis, Bernard
    Bernard Lewis

    What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    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...
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