Islam in history : ideas, people, and events in the Middle East : Lewis, Bernard, 1916- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-462) and index

PART I. The Western approaches -- 1. The study of Islam -- 2. Some English travelers in the east -- 3. The decolonization of history -- 4. On writing the modern history of the middle east -- 5. On nationalism and revolution -- 6. Slade on Turkey -- PART II. Muslim history and historians -- 7. Sources for the economic history of the middle east -- 8. In search of Islam's past -- 9. The use by Muslim historians of Non-Muslim sources -- 10. The cult of Spain and the Turkish Romantics -- PART III. Muslims and Jews -- 11. The Pro-Islamic Jews -- 12. Palestine: on the history and geography of a name -- 13. An ode against the Jews -- 14. The Sultan, the king, and the Jewish doctor

PART IV. Turks and Tatars -- 15. The Mongols, the Turks, and the Muslim polity -- 16. Ottoman observers of Ottoman decline -- 17. The Ottoman empire and its aftermath -- 18. Ibn khaldun in Turkey -- PART V. In black and white -- 19. Corsairs in Iceland -- 20. The crows of the Arabs -- PART VI. History and revolution -- 21. State and society under Islam -- 22. The significance of heresy in Islam -- 23. The revolutions in early Islam -- 24. Islamic concepts of revolution PART VII. New ideas -- 25. The idea of freedom in modern Islamic political thought -- 26. On modern Arabic political terms -- 27. Islam and development: the revaluation of values -- PART VIII. New events -- 28. Behind the Rushdie affair -- 29. The Egyptian murder case -- 30. How Khomeini made it -- 31. The revolt of Islam -- 32. The Middle East crisis in historical perspective -- Notes