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Teoksen tarkat tiedotThe Middle East: 2000 Years of History From the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (tekijä: Bernard Lewis)
![]() Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Anyone who wants to understand the Middle East should start with Bernard Lewis. A very nice narration of the happenings in the Middle East for the past nearly 2 millenia. Anyone wanting to know about this most misunderstood region should read this book first. A very nice narration of the happenings in the Middle East for the past nearly 2 millenia. Anyone wanting to know about this most misunderstood region should read this book first. A really interesting book about a subject I knew very little about. The first 100 or so pages were a bit of a struggle as they seemed to be a list of names and dates which I struggled to remember. It also rushed through the more modern history of the region, choosing instead to focus mainly on the rise of Islam and how this played out in the middle-east. All in all though I feel that I learned things from this book and I'm glad I read it.
The distinguished scholar Bernard Lewis has written a gem of a book, eminently readable and full of wonderful insights and brilliant aperçus. It combines narrative and analysis in just the right proportions and embraces the whole sweep of the history of the Near and Middle East, starting as far back as late antiquity. The study then moves forward, step by step, through the far-flung empires of the caliphs and sultans to the more recent emergence of the Arab world, after a long period of subjection and passivity, to independence and self-assertion. Professor Lewis concludes his book with some parting thoughts, elegantly and persuasively presented, on the reasons for the Middle East’s present uneasy confrontation with the challenges posed by European (and more recently American) modernity. Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinKuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihin
In this immensely readable and wide ranging book,Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East,beginning with the two great empires,the Roman and the Persian,and covering the growth of Christianity,the rise and spread of Islam,the waves of invaders from the east,the Mongol hordes of Jengiz Khan,the rise of the Ottoman Turks,and the changing balance of power between the Muslim and Christian worlds.THE MIDDLE EAST is a brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the region. No library descriptions found. |
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DOS MIL AÑOS DE HISTORIA
El Oriente Próximo ha sido un escenario privilegiado de la historia:
lugar de nacimiento de tres grandes religiones y de numerosas
civilizaciones, centro de poder político y militar... Se le han
dedicado infinidad de libros, pero nadie hasta ahora se había atrevido
a ofrecernos un panorama que abarcase dos mil años de historia,
desde la aparición del cristianismo hasta la guerra del Golfo, de
esa compleja encrucijada del viejo mundo. Se requería, para una
tarea tan ambiciosa, a un hombre como Bernard Lewis, de
la Universidad de Princeton, el más prestigioso de los orientalistas
actuales.