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  • Coffee and Coffeehouses

    The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East

    by Ralph S. Hattox ...
    Series series Publications on the Near East
    Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the period, the author recounts the colorful early history of the spread of coffee and the influence of coffeehouses in the medieval Near East. Detailed descriptions of the design, atmosphere, management, and patrons of early coffeehouses make fascinating ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • What Went Wrong?:Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.09 USD

  • A Middle East Mosaic

    Fragments of Life, Letters and History

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    In times of war and in peace, from the earliest days of the Roman Empire to our own, Westerners have journeyed to the lands of the middle east, bringing back accounts of their adventures and impressions. Yet it was never a one way exchange. From the first Arab embassy to the Vikings in the 9th century to the internet musings of the Taliban, A Middle East Mosaic collects a rich, boisterous ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Notes on a Century

    Reflections of a Middle East Historian

    by Bernard Lewis, Buntzie Ellis Churchill ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Went Wrong? tells the story of his extraordinary lifeAfter September 11, Americans who had never given much thought to the Middle East turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation, catapulting What Went Wrong? and later Crisis of Islam to become number one bestsellers. He was the first to warn of a coming "clash of civilizations," a term he coined in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Islam in History

    Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous interactions with the West.This masterly collection of essays by a leading expert on Islam and the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Muslim Discovery of Europe

    by Bernard Lewis, Ph.D. ...
    "Full of rare and exact information…A distinguished work." —New York Review of BooksThe 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 ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Faith and Power:Religion and Politics in the Middle East

    Religion and Politics in the Middle East

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    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 ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939

    by Albert Hourani ...
    Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798–1939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Crucible of Islam

    by G. W. Bowersock ...
    Little is known about sixth-century Arabia. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from Iberia to India. G. W. Bowersock illuminates this obscure yet most dynamic period in Islam, exploring why arid Arabia proved to be fertile ground for Muhammad’s message and why it spread so quickly to the wider world. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Islamic Enlightenment

    The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

    by Christopher de Bellaigue ...
    “The finest Orientalist of his generation” (Wall Street Journal) rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world.In this “stylishly written, surprisingly moving chronicle” (Harper’s), Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. “The ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Assassins

    by Bernard Lewis ...
    From a master historian, the definitive account of history's first terroristsAn offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established in Iran and Syria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, they aimed to overthrow the existing Sunni order in Islam and replace it with their own. They terrorized their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • An Imam in Paris

    Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)

    by Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi ...
    Translated by Daniel L. Newman ...
    Series Book 0 - Saqi Essentials S.
    In the 1820s, Rifa`a Rafi` al-Tahtawi, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture. His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of the earliest and most influential records of the Muslim encounter with Enlightenment-era European thought, introducing ... Read more

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