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The Crisis of Islam
- Holy War and Unholy Terror
- Narrated by: Bernard Lewis
- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Crisis of Islam ranges widely through 13 centuries of history, but in particular it charts the key events of the 20th century leading up to the bitter and violent confrontations of today. The Second World War, the creation of the state of Israel, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the September 11th attacks on the United States have all shaped Muslim perceptions in important ways.
While hostility toward the West has a long and varied history in the lands of Islam, its current concentration on America is new. So too is the cult of the suicide bomber. Bernard Lewis helps us understand the reasons for the increasingly dogmatic rejection of modernity by many in the Muslim world in favor of a return to a sacred past. Based on his George Polk Award-winning article for The New Yorker, The Crisis of Islam is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Osama bin Ladin represents and why his murderous message resonates so widely in the Islamic world.
What the critics say
"Remarkably succinct...offers a long view in the midst of so much short-termism and confusing punditry. Lewis has done us all - Muslim and non-Muslim alike - a remarkable service." (The New York Times Book Review)
"A timely and provocative contribution to the current raging debate about the tensions between the West and the Islamic world." (Business Week)
“Inestimable...replete with the exceptional historical insight that one has come to expect from the world’s foremost Islamic scholar.” (The Wall Street Journal)
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- Himz
- 2018-12-18
amazing book
This amazing book offers a great glimpse into the mind of an orientalist that feeds the bigotry of the right wingers and supply the policymakers with the negative stereotypes to further the rhetoric of hate and justify the atrocities and crimes they commit. His view is that, Arabs and Muslims deserve what we do, how dare they resent colonialism that brought them railways.
The book makes me wonder, how is it possible for "the leading orientalist" to be so ignorant that his rhetoric goes against all the empirical evidence in the field of economic development? The guy provides no support for his conclusions and views. He even keeps contradicting himself all through the book and shows how he couldn't even scratch the surface of the middle eastern mind and culture.
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