Author : Bernard Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281839
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Book Synopsis The Shaping of the Modern Middle East by : Bernard Lewis
Download or read book The Shaping of the Modern Middle East written by Bernard Lewis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.