What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response - Softcover

Lewis, Bernard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075381675X ISBN 13: 9780753816752

Publisher: W&N, 2002

Synopsis

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 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.

Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed, and he provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. Some Middle Easterners asked not 'who did this to us?' but 'where did we go wrong?'; while others fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, both internal and external - and the results are very much with us today.

About this title

About the Author

Bernard Lewis was Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Formerly Professor of Middle Eastern History at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London, 1949-74.

Edition details

• Publisher: W&N
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075381675X
• ISBN 13: 9780753816752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208