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Assassins by Bernard Lewis (Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA)
24.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
This title contains the story of an extremist Islamic sect in the 11th and 12th centuries whose terrorist methods gave the English language a new word - assassin.
From Babel to Dragomans : Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
32.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
A collection of the most important essays on past and current history by the Western world's foremost Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG? and THE CRISIS OF ISLAM, Islam's calamitous and bitter de ...Show more
Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian by Bernard Lewis
60.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
NOTES ON A CENTURY is a great historian's vivid and insightful episodic reflections on his life, from his childhood as a confident, clever little boy to his energetic old age in the present day. He is always at pains to explain the importance of the role of a historian: in contrast to other academic di ...Show more
The Crisis of Islam - Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
25.95 NZD
29.95 (13% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
President Bush has made it clear that we are engaged in a war against terrorism. But for Osama bin Laden and his followers this is religious war, a war for Islam against infidels, especially the United States, the greatest power in the world of the infidels. In this book Bernard Lewis shows us where the ...Show more
The Middle East by Bernard Lewis
27.95 NZD
Category: History
An examination of how history has shaped the identity of the Middle East. Most of its modern states are of recent origin, yet the region is the birthplace of three religions and many civilizations. Bernard Lewis, a world respected historian of the Middle East, discusses the countries and frontiers, thei ...Show more
What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response by Bernard Lewis
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
For centuries, Islam was the world's most open, enlightened, creative and powerful civilization, then everything changed, as the West won victory after victory. Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand the changes, and shows a culture in turmoil.
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