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Lewis, Bernard
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
Oxford and New York Oxford University Press 2004 0195173368 / 9780195173369 Hard Cover Fine Fine
xiv, 438 pp., bib. notes; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. Collection of articles, essays, etc. originally published 1953-2003. "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 studies' (New York Times), Lewis is nothing less than a national treasure, a trusted voice that politicians, journalists, historians, and the general public have all turned to for insight into the Middle East. Now, this revered authority has brought together writings and lectures that he has written over four decades, featuring his reflections on Middle Eastern history and foreign affairs, the Iranian Revolution, the state of Israel, the writing of history, and much more. The essays cover such urgent and compelling topics as 'What Saddam Wrought,' 'Deconstructing Osama and His Evil Appeal,' 'The Middle East, Westernized Despite Itself,' 'The Enemies of God,' and 'Can Islam be Secularized?' The collection ranges from two English originals of articles published before only in foreign languages, to previously unpublished writings, to his highly regarded essays from publications such as Foreign Affairs and The New York Review of Books. With more than fifty pieces in all, plus a new introduction to the book by Lewis, this is a valuable collection for everyone interested in the Middle East. Here then is a rich repository of wisdom on one of the key areas of the modern world--a wealth of profound reflections on Middle Eastern history, culture, politics, and current events. / Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, at Princeton University. His most recent books are The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror and What Went Wrong?, both national bestsellers and the latter a New York Times Notable Book for 2002." - Publisher.
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Lewis, Bernard
Islam and the West
New York and Oxford Oxford University Press 1994 0195090616 / 9780195090611 8th printing Trade Paperback Fine
ix, 217 pp., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Encounters; 1. Europe and Islam; 2. Legal and Historical Reflections on the Position of Muslim Populations Under Non-Muslim Rule; Studies and Perceptions; 3. Translation from Arabic; 4. The Ottoman Obsession; 5. Gibbon on Muhammad; 6. The Question of Orientalism; 7. Other People's History; Islamic Response and Reaction; 8. The Return of Islam; 9. The Shia in Islamic History; 10. Counts and Freedom; 11. Religious Coexistence and Secularism.
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Shaw, George Bernard; Casson, Lewis (Introduction by)
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
New York Heritage Press 1962 Hard Cover Very Good Mozley, Charles
xxxviii, 137 pp., [6] leaves of plates, col. illus.; 27 cm. Issued in a slipcase. Accompanied (in slipcase) by: The revolutionist's handbook & pocket companion, by John Tanner, M.I.R.C., a character in the comedy (63 pp.; 18 cm.). Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown, age toning. Sandglass (Heritage Club monthly newsletter) laid-in. Slipcase with light shelfwear. Includes the Revolutionist's Handbook. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Illustrated by Charles Mozley.
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Lewis, Meriwether, and Clark, William; De Voto, Bernard (Edited by)
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company; The American Heritage Library Ser. 1981 039508380X / 9780395083802 10th printing Trade Paperback Very Good
iii, 504 pp., maps; 23 cm. Maps by Erwin Raisz. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "In 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank -- not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keenly understood that the course of the nation's destiny lay westward and that a national 'Voyage of Discovery' must be mounted to determine the nature and accessibility of the frontier. He commissioned his young secretary, Meriwether Lewis, to lead an intelligence-gathering expedition from the Missouri River to the northern Pacific coast and back. From 1804 to 1806, Lewis, accompanied by co-captain William Clark, the Shoshone guide Sacajawea, and thirty-two men, made the first trek across the Louisiana Purchase, mapping the rivers as he went, tracing the principal waterways to the sea, and establishing the American claim to the territories of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. together the captains kept a journal, a richly detailed record of the flora and fauna they sighted, the Indian tribes they encountered, and the awe-inspiring landscape they traversed, from their base camp near present-day St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River. In keeping this record they made an incomparable contribution to the literature of exploration and the writing of natural history. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, writes Bernard DeVoto, was 'the first report on the West, on the United States over the hill and beyond the sunset, on the province of the American future. There has never been another so excellent or so influential...It satisfied desire and created desire: the desire of the westering nation.'" - Publisher.
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Lewis, Bernard
The Muslim Discovery of Europe
New York and London W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1982 0393015297 / 9780393015294 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine Collectible
350 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. With a New Introduction. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "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 brilliant historian, is one of the great sagas of world history. 30 b/w illustrations. / Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, at Princeton University." - Publisher.
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Lewis, Bernard (Edited by)
The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture
New York Thames and Hudson 1992 0500276242 / 9780500276242 Soft Cover Very Good
360 pp., illus. (some col.), maps, biblio., index; 31 cm. "490 illustrations, 160 in color, 330 photographs drawings and maps." Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Includes articles by numerous scholars. Profusely illustrated (art, architecture), with 490 illustrations, 160 in color, 330 photographs drawings and maps.
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Lewis, Bernard (Edited by)
The World of Islam: Faith, People, Culture
London Thames and Hudson 1976 Hard Cover Good No DJ
Cloth, gilt, 360 pp., illus. (some col.), maps, biblio., index; 31 cm. Binding compromised, with a cracked front hinge, repaired with cloth book tape. Clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Includes articles by numerous scholars. Profusely illustrated (art, architecture), with 490 illustrations, 160 in color, 330 photographs drawings and maps. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Bernard Lewis; Faith and the Faithful: The Lands and Peoples of Islam, by Bernard Lewis; The Man-Made Setting: Islamic Art and Architecture, by Richard Ettinghausen; Cities and Citizens: The Growth and Culture of Urban Islam, by Oleg Grabar; The Mystic Path: The Sufi Tradition, by Fritz Meier; Jewellers with Words: The Heritage of Islamic Literature, by Charles Pellat; The Dimension of Sound: Islamic Music-Philosophy, Theory and Practice, by A. Shiloah; The Scientific Enterprise: Islamic Contributions to the Development of Science, by A. I. Sabra; Armies of the Prophet: Strategy, Tactics and Weapons in Islamic Warfare, by Edmund Bosworth; Moorish Spain: The Golden Age of Cordoba and Granada, by Emilio Garcia Gomez; Land of the Lion and the Sun: The Flowering of Iranian Civilization, by Roger M. Savory; The Ottoman Empire: The Rise and Fall of Turkish Domination, by Norman Itzkowitz; Muslim India: from the Coming of Islam to Independence, by S. A. A. Rizvi Islam Today: Problems and Prospects of the 19th and 20th Centuries, by Elie Kedourie.
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Lewis, Bernard
What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response
Oxford and New York Oxford University Press 2002 0195144201 / 9780195144208 Hard Cover Very Good Fine
180 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. Right-wing claptrap. Debunk this book! Contents: The lessons of the battlefield -- The quest for wealth and power -- Social and cultural barriers -- Modernization and social equality -- Secularism and the civil society -- Time, space, and modernity -- Aspects of cultural change. "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 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 in the battlefield and 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. Lewis provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. He shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry and military tactics, commerce and industry, government and diplomacy, education and culture. Lewis highlights the striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the 18th to the 20th centuries through thought-provoking comparisons of such things as Christianity and Islam, music and the arts, the position of women, secularism and the civil society, the clock and the calendar. Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis is one of the West's foremost authorities on Islamic history and culture. In this striking volume, he offers an incisive look at the historical relationship between the Middle East and Europe. / Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University. A highly eminent authority on Middle Eastern history, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, The Muslim Discovery of Europe and The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years." - Publisher.
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