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The Crisis of Islam

The Crisis of Islam ranges widely through thirteen centuries of history, but in particular it charts the key events of the twentieth century leading up to the violent confrontations of today: the creation of the state of Israel, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the September 11th attacks on the United States.

While hostility toward the West has a long and varied history in the lands of Islam, its current concentration on America is new. So too is the cult of the suicide bomber. Brilliantly disentangling the crosscurrents of Middle Eastern history from the rhetoric of its manipulators, Bernard Lewis helps us understand the reasons for the increasingly dogmatic rejection of modernity by many in the Muslim world in favor of a return to a sacred past.

Based on his George Polk Award-winning article for The New Yorker, Bernard Lewis's The Crisis of Islam is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Usama bin Ladin represents and why his murderous message resonates so widely in the Islamic world.


"Remarkably succinct... It offers a long view in the midst of so much short-termism and confusing punditry. Lewis has done us all -- Muslim and non-Muslim alike -- a remarkable service."
   THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"Inestimable... replete with the exceptional historical insight that one has come to expect from the world's foremost Islamic scholar."
   THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

"A timely and provocative contribution to the current raging debate about the tensions between the West and the Islamic world."
   BUSINESS WEEK

"No scholar of Islam in the Western world has more thoroughly earned the respect of generalists and academics alike than Bernard Lewis.... An excitingly knowledgeable antidote to today's natural sense of befuddlement.... History with electric immediacy."
   BALTIMORE SUN




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Title of ebook: The Crisis of Islam
ISBN: 9781588360755
parent-ISBN: 9780679642817
Publisher: Random House
Published: 03-2003
Released online for download: 03-25-2003
Author of eBook: Lewis, Bernard

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The Crisis of Islam

Holy War and Unholy Terror

Chapter One

Defining Islam

It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents both of Christianity and of Christendom. In the one sense it denotes a religion, a system of belief and worship; in the other, the civilization that grew up and flourished under the aegis of that religion. The word Islam thus denotes more than fourteen centuries of history, a billion and a third people, and a religious and cultural tradition of enormous diversity. Christianity and Christendom represent a greater number and a longer period-more than 2 billion people, more than twenty centuries, and even greater diversity. Nevertheless, certain generalizations can be and are made about what is variously called Christian, Judeo-Christian, post-Christian, and-more simply-Western civilization. While generalizing about Islamic civilization may be difficult and at times in a sense dangerous, it is not impossible and may in some ways be useful.

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