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What went wrong?, western impact and Middle Eastern response, Lewis Bernard

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Includes bibliographical references and index

What went wrong?

Lewis Bernard

western impact and Middle Eastern response

Lewis provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. He shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry and military tactics, commerce and industry, government and diplomacy, education and culture. He highlights the striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries with thought-provoking comparisons of such things as Christianity and Islam, music and the arts, the position of women, secularism and the civil society, the clock and the calendar