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 first expansion to its interpretation by Saddam Hussein and other extremists - has always been inextricably linked to the Western world.
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 first expansion to its interpretation by Saddam Hussein and other extremists - has always been inextricably linked to the Western world.
This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam. On the one hand Islam is undervalued as a moral...
A comprehensive, factual, unbiased account of the history and traditions of the Islamic faith - part of the award-winning Big Ideas series This comprehensive, accessible, and factual guide to...