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Islam: From the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople Volume 2: Religion and Society Paperback – June 4, 1987

ISBN-13: 978-0195050882 ISBN-10: 0195050886

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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press (June 4, 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0195050886
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195050882
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 0.9 x 5.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"Lewis...is an illuminating, authoritative guide. This collection supplies a vital part of world history long lacking in Western scholarship on this period."--Christian Science Monitor

"Excellent companion to any textbook on Islamic history."--Mona Russell, MIT

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Text: English, Arabic (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful By Harry Eagar VINE VOICE on July 15, 2007
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This old reader -- published in 1974 as volume two of a set; volume one on history and battles, is out of print -- gains in interest with each passing explosion.

Muslim apologists detest Bernard Lewis (see the review of this volume by "A reader" for confirmation). Among the traditionalists, this is understandable. But the self-described moderates and modernizers dislike him just as much, not realizing what this says about the flimsiness of their modern mask.

What Muslims of so many opinions hate about Lewis is that he applies critical historical and linguistic methods to their myths. This threatens to be as corrosive of some of those myths as the same method was of Christianity, monarchism and any number of other myths where western scholars have used it.

Of all Lewis' books, "Islam" should be the most acceptable to them, since it consists almost entirely of translations, with very little -- insufficient, in my opinion -- commentary.

Most of these ancient documents were in Arabic, with a few in Turkish and Persian and a couple in Hebrew.

Lewis comments that the remains of written records from the early centuries of Islam are comparatively scanty, and what do exist have not been systematically collected and translated, unlike the huge compendiums of Greek and Latin.

It is impossible not to be impressed by the energy invested in spreading the doctrines of Mohammad so far and wide in the early years. Or not to marvel at how, within less than two centuries, the theologians managed to shut down further discussion. Christianity, by contrast, was just beginning to fight its doctrinal battles when it was 200 years old.
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27 of 33 people found the following review helpful By Jeremy Davies on June 7, 2003
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This is not Bernard Lewis's best work, but it still retains the unbiased, scholarly yet readable style of his previous efforts. He is unflinching - which upsets many zealots - in his analysis and lacking in apologist platitudes, but without honesty, there can be no literature.

I hope he continues to document Middle Eastern history uneffected by political and religous fundamentalism. The literature of history needs him.
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11 of 114 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on February 8, 2003
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Bernard Lewis is a racist, anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab writer. I do not recommend any of his work. I find his work to be not accurate, and offensive.
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