Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East Friday, July 31 2009.

• Recent events have made an understanding of the turmoil in the Middle East more important than ever. In these essays, Bernard Lewis, a leading expert on Islam, gives essential background on Middle Eastern conflicts with the West and shows how Islam — from its first expansion to its interpretation by Saddam Hussein and other extremists — has always been inextricably linked to the Western world.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East Friday, July 31 2009.

• Added a contributor: Bernard Lewis: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East Friday, July 17 2009.

• During the nineteenth century the forms, language, and to some extent even the structures of public life in the Muslim countries were given a Western and therefore a secular appearance.