Bernard Lewis: 38 books
The Jews of Islam
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies. With authority, sympathy and wit, Bernard Lewis demolishes two competing stereotypes: the Islamophobic picture of the fanatical Muslim...
Der Untergang des Morgenlandes
Warum die islamische Welt ihre Vormacht verlor
Language: German
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Die Probleme der islamischen Welt sind unübersehbar, ebenso deren Folgen für den Westen. Mit dieser provokanten Feststellung analysiert Beranard Lewis die historische Entwicklung des Orients - insbesondere des Osmanischen Reiches und seine Nachfolgestaaten: Die einstige Drehscheibe der Kultur, des...
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
From a master historian, the definitive account of history's first terrorists
An offshoot of the Ismaili Shi'ite sect of Islam, the Assassins were the first group to make systematic use of murder as a political weapon. Established in Iran and Syria in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, they...
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the course of human history? In this well-established...
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 1994
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...
by Bernard Lewis, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2001
"Full of rare and exact information…A distinguished work." —New York Review of Books
The eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and...
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
The Swansea Battalion was formed from local men by the Mayor of Swansea in the response to Lord Kitchener’s famous appeal for volunteers. This, the first full history of the Battalion, covers early recruiting for the battalion in the Swansea area and its subsequent training in Swansea, Rhyl and...
Islam in History
Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous...
by Bernard Lewis, Guenther von Elbe
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases, Third Edition provides the chemist, physicist, and engineer with the scientific basis for understanding combustion phenomena.
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The Great War left an indelible mark on almost every town and village in Britain and this extensively researched book looks in detail at how that war affected the town of Swansea and its people.
Themes covered in the book include recruitment and the treatment of conscientious objectors, how Belgian...
by Bernard Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Combustion, Flames, and Explosions of Gases, Second Edition focuses on the processes, methodologies, and reactions involved in combustion phenomena.
The publication first offers information on theoretical foundations, reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, and reaction between carbon monoxide and oxygen....
Islam
The Religion and the People
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Praise for Bernard Lewis
"For newcomers to the subject[el]Bernard Lewis is the man."
TIME Magazine
“The doyen of Middle Eastern studies."
The New York Times
“No one writes about Muslim history with greater authority,...
The Greatest British Classics Ever Written
Diary of a Nobody, Sons and Lovers, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, Arms and the Man, The War of the Worlds, Howards End, Jude the Obscure, Hamlet…
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Paradise Lost (John Milton) Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) The History of...
World's Greatest Classics in One Volume
Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, Huck Finn, Walden, War and Peace, Art of War, Siddhartha, Faust, Don Quixote, Arabian Nights, Bushido…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)...