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    What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    Written by Bernard Lewis

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    For many centuries, the world of Islam was at 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 intriguing 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 8, 2002
    ISBN9781415904855
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    What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
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    Bernard Lewis

    Bernard Lewis (born May 31, 1916) was born in London. He is the author of forty-six books on Islam and the Middle East, including Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian; The End of Modern History in the Middle East; and The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. He also wrote three major syntheses for general audiences: The Arabs in History; The Middle East and the West; and The Middle East. Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.

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    • 4/5
      A very interesting and informative book regarding Islam's history viz a viz Christendom Europe from the Middle Eastern perspective. It primarily focuses on the questions that Muslims have been asking regarding their diminished influence that began on the 17th century onward with their military and economic decline.
    • 4/5
      A must read for those interested in Islam, its background and development until our present time.
    • 4/5
      The story of Islam has dominated the collective psyche of the western world since 9/11, though few seem to have gone out of their way to understand the religion and its adherents. If you want to know how Islam got to where it is, and the challenges that it faces, then this book is an extremely good start.For a long period in history, Islam was an enlightened religion, and the lands that it dominated were more open and egalitarian than the Christian equivalents. Arab Muslims lived in close harmony with Christians and Jews, and science and poetry flowered.What happened, then, to put Islam and Islamic republics in the position they now find themselves in? Political and economic stagnation, the arts repressed, science left to the west and Japan - everything seems to have gone wrong, and it is a complicated matter to see why. If you want to know, or get some ideas at least, then read this excellent book.
    • 5/5
      This book taught me much about the tragic decline of Islamic civilization, a culture which was once so great yet has fallen so far. And, contrary to certain vocal, if not necessarily informed, objectors, Lewis tells this story in a way that is both fair and sympathetic. But what most impressed me about the book was that it didn't just teach me about the Islamic world--I expected that-- it also imparted a surprising amount of information about the West. I was shocked to find myself learning so much about my own culture. (Of course, not *everything* that I learned about the West painted it in pretty hues, but that's not the point, now is it?)
    • 3/5
      Mildly interesting history, but doesn't really answer the question implied by the title. Lacking in actual analysis.
    • 3/5
      This brief book is a re‑worked collection of essays by an accomplished scholar of Islam, Turkey and Arabia. Bernard Lewis explores several aspects of the reasons for the eclipse of Islam and the Arabic empire by Western Europeans in the 16th through 20th century. It is not an exhaustive history but a snapshot of some cultural themes. He explores the military changes, cultural influences, scientific issues such as the marking of time and measurement, and the response of the Islamic societies to the European challenge. It was written before the Sept 11 attacks, but has a great deal of relevance to understanding some of the resentment at their origin. Written in an engaging and scholarly style.
    • 2/5
      This is Lewis covering history, which he does well, but truth be told, there's little of interest here that isn't in his hour-long talks on the internet, which are tighter edited and better focussed.
    • 3/5
      Lewis catalogue's the failings of Arab political, social, and economic history in its historical relationship with the West.