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Bernard W. Lewis 出版社: Harper Perennial 副标题: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East 出版年: 2003-1 页数: 208 定价: GBP 9.31 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780060516055
For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first...
For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace. In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sense of how it had been overtaken, overshadowed, and dominated by the West. In a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil, Lewis shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry, industry, government, education, and culture. He also describes how some Middle Easterners fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, while others asked not "Who did this to us?" but rather "Where did we go wrong?" With a new Afterword that addresses September 11 and its aftermath, What Went Wrong? is an urgent, accessible book that no one who is concerned with contemporary affairs will want to miss.
In the areas that they ruled, the British and the French created constitutional and parliamentary regimes in their own images -- British-style constitutional monarchies and French-style republics. None of them worked very well, and with independence, almost all of them were discredited and overthrown. In the Russian Empire, revolution and civil war for a while loosened the control of the central government over its imperial territories. But the Soviets succeeded in restoring it with greater authority than ever before, and were much more successful than either the British or the French in establishing Soviet republics in their own image in the Muslim lands that they ruled. (查看原文)
The difference between Middle Eastern and Western economic approaches can be seen even in their distinctive forms of corruption, from which neither society is exempt. In the West, one makes money in the market, and uses it to buy or influence power. In the East, one seizes power, and uses it to make money. Morally there is no difference between the two, but their impact on the economy and on the polity is very different. (查看原文)
Solid materials on the history of Islamic development in the Middle East after the nineteenth century, when the West achieved dominance over the rest of the world. Kudos to Lewis for writing elegantly on the responses in political, military, cultural, and s...
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