The Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day

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In this immensely readable and wide-ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the two great empires, the Roman and the Persian, and covering the growth of Christianity, the rise and spread of Islam, the waves of invaders from the east, the Mongol hordes of Jengiz Khan, the rise of the Ottoman Turks, and the changing balance of power between the Muslim and Christian worlds. 'This book is a masterpiece' Sir Anthony Parsons, Daily Telegraph

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Published
03/12/2001

Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History

ISBN
9781842121399

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Birthplace of three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, a crossroads of inter-continental trade and a major centre of ideas, the Middle East has played a leading role in the history of the world. Successively invaded (and transformed) by the Romans, Persians, Mongols, Ottomans, Mamluks and Iranian Safavids, the Middle East has for 13 centuries been the sustaining core of Islamic civilization in an often bitter confrontation with Western Christendom, yet making at least as great a contribution to the life of Christian Mediterranean Europe as Europe in the last 200 years has, by its technological dominance, made on the heartlands of Islam. At a time when a new chapter seems to be opening up in the rivalry between Islam and the West, this accessible and wide-ranging survey of 2000 years of Middle Eastern history by one of our leading Middle East scholars deserves to be widely read. (Kirkus UK)