Bernard Lewis' "Islam and the West"

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This paper presents a review of "Islam and the West" by Bernard Lewis by examining each of the different sections in the book. The paper talks about Lewis' theme that it is very difficult to study a culture that has few roots in the culture of the researcher and that both cultures look at each other from a xenophobic point of view. The paper concludes that "Islam and the West" is an important book that should be part of high school and college studies in world history.

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"The author of Islam and the West, Bernard Lewis, has an extensive background in the study of Islam. He has both a B. A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of London. His B.A. emphasizes the Near and Middle East, and his Ph.D. focused on the history of Islam. He did additional graduate work at the University of Paris. He taught for many years at the University of London, and since 1986 has taught at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. His long list of other published books include The Arabs in History (1950), The Political Language of Islam (1988), and his most recent work, A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of life, letters and history (2000). "

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