Bernard Lewis – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Bernard Lewis. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
71 produkter
What Went Wrong?
The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
Häftad, 2002
148 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this has produced.For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then …
Jews of Islam
Updated Edition
Häftad, 2014
209 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Islam and the West
Häftad, 1994
303 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The …
Islam
The Religion and the People (paperback)
Av Bernard Lewis, Buntzie Churchill
Häftad, 2015
158 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Islam and the West
E-bok, 1994
212 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 Arabs in History , The Emergence of Modern Turkey , …
Arabs in History
E-bok, 2002
126 kr
Lägg i varukorg
`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.'' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the course of human history?In this well-established …
Arabs in History
E-bok, 2002
126 kr
Lägg i varukorg
`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.'' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the course of human history?In this well-established …
Arabs in History
Häftad, 2002
182 kr
Lägg i varukorg
`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the course of human history?In this well-established …
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
An Historical Enquiry
Inbunden, 1990
418 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The state of race relations in Islamic societies has often been the subject of optimistic descriptions. Sources as various as Toynbee and Malcolm X refer to a racial Utopia, a colour-blind society. This society is seen as the direct result of the tenets of Islam, in which the only important …
Islam and the West
Inbunden, 1993
1445 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Is it correct to equate Islam with the West, a religious community with a geo-political entity? Islam is not a place; it is a religion. But, in this enlightening and distinguished collection of essays, several of them previously unpublished in English, Bernard Lewis questions the apparent …
Cultures in Conflict
Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery
Häftad, 1996
259 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Bernard Lewis uses the year 1492, a year laden with epic events and riven by political debate, to explore the clash between the Jews, Christendom, and Islam, as well as that between the New World and the Old.
What Went Wrong?
Approaches to the Modern History of the Middle East
Inbunden, 2002
863 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Why did the most advanced civilization in the world lose its power and fall under the domination of others? This book examines how Middle Easterners responded to Western challenges in war, technology, sciences, religion, gender relations and other areas between the 18th and 20th centuries. It …
Faith and Power
Religion and Politics in the Middle East
Inbunden, 2010
406 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 "the doyen of Middle …
From Babel to Dragomans
Interpreting the Middle East
Häftad, 2005
341 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 "the doyen of Middle Eastern …
Islam and the West
E-bok, 1994
239 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 Arabs in History , The Emergence of Modern Turkey , …
Shaping of the Modern Middle East
E-bok, 1994
265 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Faith and Power
Religion and Politics in the Middle East
E-bok, 2010
171 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 "the doyen of Middle …
Faith and Power
Religion and Politics in the Middle East
E-bok, 2010
171 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 "the doyen of Middle …
Cultures in Conflict
Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery
E-bok, 1995
168 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 by the coolest and most reassuring of guides. You …
Cultures in Conflict
Christians, Muslims, and Jews in the Age of Discovery
E-bok, 1996
168 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 by the coolest and most reassuring of guides. You …
Political Language of Islam
Häftad, 1991
152 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What does jihad really mean? What is the Muslim conception of law? What is Islam's stance toward unbelievers? Probing literary and historical sources, Bernard Lewis traces the development of Islamic political language from the time of the Prophet to the present. His analysis of documents written in …
Assassins
A Radical Sect in Islam
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The history of an extremist Islamic sect in the 11th-12th centuries whose terrorist methods gave the English language a new word: assassin. The word ''Assassin'' was brought back from Syria by the Crusaders, and in time acquired the meaning of murderer. Originally it was applied to the members of a …
Middle East
2000 Years Of History From The Rise Of Christianity to the Present Day
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world''s greatest authorities on the subject In this immensely readable and wide-ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empires, the Roman …
Notes on a Century
Reflections of A Middle East Historian
Av Buntzie Ellis Churchill, Bernard Lewis
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The memoirs of the greatest historian of the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis. After 9/11, people who had never given much thought to the politics of the Middle East found themselves wondering why there was such rage brewing in the region. Many of them turned to Bernard Lewis for an …
Middle East Mosaic
Fragments of Life, Letters and History
E-bok, 2007
186 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have journeyed to the lands of the middle east, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. Yet it was never a one way exchange. From the first Arab embassy to the Vikings in the 9th …
Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases
Av Guenther von Elbe, Bernard Lewis
E-bok, 2012
717 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases, Third Edition provides the chemist, physicist, and engineer with the scientific basis for understanding combustion phenomena.
Semites and Anti-Semites
An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice
Häftad, 1999
286 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century. This conflict is primarily political, a clash between states and peoples over territory and history. But it is also a conflict that has affected and been affected by prejudice. For a long time this was simply the …
Muslim Discovery of Europe
Häftad, 2001
314 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a …
Jews of Islam
Inbunden, 2007
3082 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Against a vivid background of Jewish and Islamic history, Bernard Lewis portrays the Judaeo-Islamic tradition – a cultural relationship parallel to the Judaeo-Christian heritage. He traces its origins in the early Middle Ages, its flowering, and its ending, followed by the incorporation of most of …
Jews of Islam
Häftad, 2010
754 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Against a vivid background of Jewish and Islamic history, Bernard Lewis portrays the Judaeo-Islamic tradition – a cultural relationship parallel to the Judaeo-Christian heritage. He traces its origins in the early Middle Ages, its flowering, and its ending, followed by the incorporation of most of …
