TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernard Lewis
TI  - Islam in History: Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East: New Edition, Revised and Expanded
SN  - 9780812692174
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Chicago, La Salle
PB  - Open Court
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Islam
KW  - History
KW  - Historiography
N2  - 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
ER  -