Bernard Lewis has written 63 work(s)
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9780195144208 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 24, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Explores the historical relationship between Europe and the Middle East, examining how the Islamic world came to be dominated by the West and discussing the differences between the two cultures from the 18th century to the 20th century.
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9780812692167 | Rev exp su edition (Open Court Pub Co, May 1, 1993), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: From the first expansion of Islam to the exploits of Saddam Hussein, Middle Eastern society has been fatefully involved with the West.
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9780812695182 | Rev exp edition (Open Court Pub Co, November 1, 2001), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Recent events have made an understanding of the turmoil in the Middle East more important than ever.
9780812692174 | Rev exp edition (Open Court Pub Co, May 1, 1993), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: From the first expansion of Islam to the exploits of Saddam Hussein, Middle Eastern society has been fatefully involved with the West.
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9780679451914, titled "A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History" | Random House Inc, March 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The history of a rich cultural exchange between Islam and the West covers this often tumultuous relationship, from the first Arab embassy to the Vikings to the Taliban on the internet.
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9780375758379 | Modern Library, November 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The history of a rich cultural exchange between Islam and the West covers this often tumultuous relationship, from the first Arab embassy to the Vikings to the Taliban on the Internet.
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Product Description: Written by renowned scholar Bernard Lewis, this book has long established itself as the preferred one-volume history of modern Turkey. Now in its third edition, this book has been updated to include the most recent information on Turkey and addresses such issues as Turkey's emergence as a Western-oriented power; its inclusion in the European Union; its continued involvement with the politics of the Middle East as well as the politics of the Iraq-UN conflict; and the politically divisive issue of Kurdich violence and ethnic nationalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195134599 | 3 sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 6, 2001), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Written by renowned scholar Bernard Lewis, this book has long established itself as the preferred one-volume history of modern Turkey.
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9780195134605 | 3 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 6, 2001), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Written by renowned scholar Bernard Lewis, The Emergence of Modern Turkey has established itself as the preferred one-volume history of modern Turkey.
9780195003444 | 2nd edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1968), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Studies the nature of Turkish civilization under the Ottoman Empire, and examines the new order which has risen since the Democratic Party's victory in 1950
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9780393321654 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "Full of rare and exact information.
9780393302332 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1985), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An examination of the relations of the Muslim world with Europe from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century analyzes its influence on the Arabic language, religion, economy, politics, science, and society
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9780805241723 | Schocken Books, September 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The Middle East is the birthplace of ancient civilizations, but most of the modern states that occupy its territory today are of recent origin, as are many key concepts of communal and individual identity and loyalty that the peoples of the region now confront.
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9780805211184, titled "The Multiple Identities of the Middle East" | Schocken Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: The Middle East is the birthplace of ancient civilizations, but most of the modern states that occupy its territory today are of recent origin, as are many key concepts of communal and individual identity and loyalty that the peoples of the region now confront.
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9780841905207, titled "Christians & Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society" | Holmes & Meier Pub, October 1, 1982, cover price $47.25
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9780841911383 | Abridged edition (Holmes & Meier Pub, September 1, 2000), cover price $24.95
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A survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subject
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9781842120170 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, May 4, 2000), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subject
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9789652240408 | Syracuse Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $24.95
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9780393318395 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Arab-Israeli conflict has unsettled the Middle East for over half a century.
9780393304206 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Examines how anti-Semitism is influencing Arab-Israeli relations and world press coverage of the Middle East, discusses the Holocaust, and assesses Nazi influence on the Arab nations
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9780297819806 | Orion Pub Co, February 1, 1999, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A series of predictions about the Middle East in fifty years.
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Product Description: This wide-ranging book charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empires, Roman and Persian, which disputed the Middle East 2000 years ago; the development of monotheism and the spread of Christianity; the rapid rise and spread of Islam over a vast area; the invasion of the Mongol hordes of Ghengis Khan; the rise of the Ottoman Turks in Anatolia, the Mamluks in Egypt and the Safavid shahs in Persia; the peak and decline of the great Ottoman state; the changing balance of power between the Muslim and Christian worlds; and the overwhelming impact, in modern times, of Western ideas and technology, and the attempts to reverse them...read more
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9780684807126 | Scribner, May 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A popular history of the Middle East traces the rise and spread of Islam throughout this volatile region, the impact of Western ideas and technology, and Islamic fundamentalism and its struggle to control the spread of Western thought
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9780684832807 | Reprint edition (Scribner, August 1, 1997), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A popular history of the Middle East traces the rise and spread of Islam throughout this volatile region, the impact of Western ideas and technology, and Islamic fundamentalism and its struggle to control the spread of Western thought
9789990036213 | Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1997, cover price $0.02
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9781439502075 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This wide-ranging book charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empires, Roman and Persian, which disputed the Middle East 2000 years ago; the development of monotheism and the spread of Christianity; the rapid rise and spread of Islam over a vast area; the invasion of the Mongol hordes of Ghengis Khan; the rise of the Ottoman Turks in Anatolia, the Mamluks in Egypt and the Safavid shahs in Persia; the peak and decline of the great Ottoman state; the changing balance of power between the Muslim and Christian worlds; and the overwhelming impact, in modern times, of Western ideas and technology, and the attempts to reverse them.
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9780195090260 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 19, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Providing a new understanding of the events in 1492, a historian examines the voyages of discovery in the context of the European-Islamic struggle for domination
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9780195102833 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 18, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Hailed as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies" in The New York Times Book Review, Bernard Lewis stands at the height of his field.
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Product Description: For Muslims politics and religion are inseparable, whereas European states with their Christian democracies consider this separation as one of their prime principles. Therefore, how can there be an acceptable way of integrating Muslims? The studies gathered here show the extraordinary diversity of both national attitudes and governmental policies: France claims the assimilation of individuals, while Germany rejects many forms of integration...read more
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9781855672505 | Pinter Pub Ltd, December 1, 1994, cover price $79.50 | About this edition: For Muslims politics and religion are inseparable, whereas European states with their Christian democracies consider this separation as one of their prime principles.
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9781855672147 | Pinter Pub Ltd, December 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: For Muslims politics and religion are inseparable, whereas European states with their Christian democracies consider this separation as one of their prime principles.
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9780195076196 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 24, 1993, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the interaction of Europe and its Islamic neighbors, the difficulties of translating classic Arabic, Arab fundamentalism, and life in the Islamic world today
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9780195090611 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 27, 1994), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Essays discuss the interaction of Europe and its Islamic neighbors, the difficulties of translating classic Arabic, Arab fundamentalism, and life in the Islamic world today
9789990142785 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $0.02
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Product Description: With this major revision of his work "The Middle East and the West" (1964), a leading Middle East historian offers a detailed history of Western-Middle Eastern relations from the late 17th century to the present day. Fully revised to cover the volatile developments of the last three decades, it 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...read more
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9780195072815 | Rev sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 17, 1994), cover price $33.95 | About this edition: With this major revision of his work "The Middle East and the West" (1964), a leading Middle East historian offers a detailed history of Western-Middle Eastern relations from the late 17th century to the present day.
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9780195072822 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 17, 1994), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780195053265 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 30, 1992), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East.
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9780500276242 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 1991), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In spite of its astonishing impact upon the modern world, the civilization of Islam is still "Terra Incognita" for many in the West.
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9780226476926 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 31, 1900, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Discuss the Islamic Scriptures that form the basis for its political language, looks at the changes in modern Islamic politics, and analyzes the transformation of political terms.
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9780226476933 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Discuss the Islamic Scriptures that form the basis for its political language, looks at the changes in modern Islamic politics, and analyzes the transformation of political terms.
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Product Description: From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East. Pagans, Jews, Christians, and Muslims bought and sold at the slave markets for millennia, trading the human plunder of wars and slave raids that reached from the Russian steppes to the African jungles...read more
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9780195062830 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 1, 1990, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: From before the days of Moses up through the 1960s, slavery was a fact of life in the Middle East.
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9780806110608 | Reprint edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, February 1, 1989), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: On Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the young Sultan Mehemmed, known to history as the Conqueror,” launched the final assault against the walls of Constantinople and added that imperial capital, as coping stone; to the Empire that his fathers had conquered.
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Examines the nature of historical knowledge, study, and writing and their functions and purposes in human societies through descriptions and illustrations of the three types of history, commemorative, critical, and invented
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9780671620707 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1987, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Examines the nature of historical knowledge, study, and writing and their functions and purposes in human societies through descriptions and illustrations of the three types of history, commemorative, critical, and invented
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9780124467514 | 3 sub edition (Academic Pr, October 1, 1987), cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases, Third Edition provides the chemist, physicist, and engineer with the scientific basis for understanding combustion phenomena.
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9780195050882 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 4, 1987, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This second volume examines the religion and structure of Islamic society.
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9780195050875 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 4, 1987, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: This documentary history of Islam from the advent of the prophet Muhammed to the capture of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed, the Conqueror, is concerned with a period that extends from the 7th century to 1453; with a region that stretches from Western Arabia to embrace the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia, tropical Africa, and southern and eastern Europe; and with people and states, which, amid many diversities, share a common acceptance of the faith and law of Islam.
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