The end of modern history in the Middle East
By: Bernard Lewis
Contributors: Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order
Series: Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780817912949; 9780817912963
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions; Islam and politics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The historian's vision : the craft of Bernard Lewis / Fouad Ajami; title: The end of modern history in the Middle East; title: Propaganda in the Middle East; title: Iran : Haman or Cyrus?; title: The new anti-Semitism; title: First religion, then race, then what?