Arabian Nightmares. (Books).(What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response )

From: The National Interest | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Pryce-Jones, David | Copyright information

Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (New York: Oxford University, 2002), 180 pp., $23.

THERE IS a story; perhaps apocryphal, about a scholar who wrote a book of a million words on his subject. Asked why it had to be so long, this scholar replied that he did not have the time to write a shorter book. At rather regular intervals, Bernard Lewis publishes short books on one or another aspect of Islam, its history, and its cultural or p...

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