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The end of modern history in the Middle East

Title
The end of modern history in the Middle East / Bernard Lewis.
Author
Lewis, Bernard, 1916-2018
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, ©2011.

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Additional Authors
Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.
Description
xxvi, 188 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
The author examines in detail the issues most critical to the region's future. He describes oil as the current, most important export to the outside world from the Middle East but warns that technology will eventually make it obsolete, leaving those who depend solely on oil revenues with a bleak future. The three factors that could most help transform the Middle East, according to Lewis, are Turkey, Israel, and women. He also argues that there is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the other to provide the basis for an advance toward freedom in the true sense of that word and to achieve the social, cultural, and scientific changes necessary to bring the Middle East into line with the developed countries of both West and East.
Series Statement
Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 604
Uniform Title
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 604.
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Islam and politics > Middle East
  • Politics and government
  • Islam and politics
  • Politics and government
  • Social conditions
  • Politik
  • Soziale Situation
  • Politik
  • Islam
  • Middle East > Politics and government > 21st century
  • Middle East > Social conditions > 21st century
  • Middle East > Politics and government
  • Middle East > Social conditions
  • Middle East
  • Naher Osten
  • Naher Osten
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
The historian's vision : the craft of Bernard Lewis / Fouad Ajami -- The end of modern history in the Middle East -- Propaganda in the Middle East -- Iran : Haman or Cyrus? -- The new anti-Semitism -- First religion, then race, then what?
ISBN
  • 9780817912949
  • 0817912940
  • 9780817912963
  • 0817912967
LCCN
  • 2011019143
  • 40019446876
OCLC
  • ocn701013348
  • 701013348
  • SCSB-14453837
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library