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Indlæser... Mellemøstens historie i de seneste 2000 åraf Bernard Lewis
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. With the recent escalation of conflict in the Middle East I felt compelled to become more knowledgeable regarding the conflict and the history of the Middle East. Bernard Lewis is said to have been one of the foremost world experts on this complex part of the world so I thought this would be a good place to start. Spoiler alert - I gave up after 280 pages. Professor Lewis was clearly exceptionally learned and I am sure that those in academia would have found this book extraordinary. For my part I thought it was dense, very hard to follow and written in a manner that was far too academic for my taste. There is no question that the Middle East is steeped in a complex history however this book takes something complex and amplifies the complexity rather than distilling or interpreting it in a way that is accessible for those who are not as scholarly. ( ) EL ORIENTE PRÓXIMO: DOS MIL AÑOS DE HISTORIA El Oriente Próximo ha sido un escenario privilegiado de la historia: lugar de nacimiento de tres grandes religiones y de numerosas civilizaciones, centro de poder político y militar... Se le han dedicado infinidad de libros, pero nadie hasta ahora se había atrevido a ofrecernos un panorama que abarcase dos mil años de historia, desde la aparición del cristianismo hasta la guerra del Golfo, de esa compleja encrucijada del viejo mundo. Se requería, para una tarea tan ambiciosa, a un hombre como Bernard Lewis, de la Universidad de Princeton, el más prestigioso de los orientalistas actuales.
The distinguished scholar Bernard Lewis has written a gem of a book, eminently readable and full of wonderful insights and brilliant aperçus. It combines narrative and analysis in just the right proportions and embraces the whole sweep of the history of the Near and Middle East, starting as far back as late antiquity. The study then moves forward, step by step, through the far-flung empires of the caliphs and sultans to the more recent emergence of the Arab world, after a long period of subjection and passivity, to independence and self-assertion. Professor Lewis concludes his book with some parting thoughts, elegantly and persuasively presented, on the reasons for the Middle East’s present uneasy confrontation with the challenges posed by European (and more recently American) modernity. Belongs to SeriesTilhører ForlagsserienHæderspriser
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 No library descriptions found. |
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