What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle... by Bernard Lewis

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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... read more

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Islamic Middle East that Indian numbers were for the first time incorporated in the inherited body of mathematical learning.

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Books › Nonfiction › Politics › History & Theory
Books › History › World
Books › History › Middle East

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Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

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