The Shaping of the Modern Middle East

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Éditeur : Oxford University Press	Date & Lieu : 1994-01-01, New York
Préface :	Pages : 186
Traduction :	ISBN : 0-19-507281-2
Langue : Anglais	Format : 137x 221 mm
Code FIKP : Liv. Eng. Sha. Lew. N° 5829	Thème : Général

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The Shaping of the Modern Middle East Bernard Lewis Oxford University Press The best short book on the Middle East....A work of the highest level, combining, elegance of style with an easy mastery of the subject. This is probably one of the best books on any historical-political subject in recent years.” New York Review of Books “The author’s great learning, his keen understanding of the processes at work in the region, his incisiveness and wit, make reading this volume an undiluted pleasure.” The Nation With this major revision of his classic The Middle East and the West (1964), a leading Middle East historian of our time offers a definitive and now more-timely-than-ever history of Western-Middle Eastern relations from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Fully revised to cover the volatile developments of the last three decades, The Shaping of the Modern Middle East sheds light on the climax and sudden end of the cold war, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Arab-Israeli wars, the formation and activities of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the Persian Gulf War, and the Iranian revolution. Illuminating the region’s geography, culture, history, language, and religion, Lewis explores the complex and often confusing issues of Arab nationalism, Islamic fundamentalism, and responses and reactions in the Middle East to centuries of Western influence, revealing the subtlety and sophistication of this dynamic civilization as no other scholar can. About the Author Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus, at Princeton University. His work has been translated in twenty-three languages, and he has lectured in Europe, Asia, North Africa, and America, and in many Muslim countries.


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Bernard Lewis The Shaping of the Modern Middle East Oxford University Press Oxford University Press, Inc. The Shaping of the Modern Middle East Bernard Lewis Other Books by The Author The Arabs in History (1950, new ed. 1993) The Emergence of Modem Turkey (1961, rev. ed. 1968) Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (1963, The Assassins (1968) The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982) The Jews of Islam (1984) The Political Language of Islam (1988) Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry (1990) Islam in History (1993) Islam and the West (1993) New York Oxford Oxford University Press 1994 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Kuala Lumpur Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland Madrid and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1964 by Bernard Lewis © 1994 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lewis, Bernard The shaping of the modem Middle East I Bernard Lewis, p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-19-507281-2—ISBN 0-19-507282-0 (pbk.) 1. Middle East—History—1517— I. Title. DS62.4. L48 1994 956—dc20 93—3283 246897531 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Cover design by Ed Atkeson / Berg Design