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A concise, illustrated history of Islam which considers all aspects of its remarkably rich civilisation
Bernard Lewis is a British-American historian, public intellectual, and political commentator. Lewis' expertise is in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West. He is also noted in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire. n 1990, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Lewis for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.
'A magnificent repository of love and learning … approaching its
subject with such generosity and proportion that one feels the
whole of Islamic art and learning has to be encapsulated within its
covers' - The Times
'Scholarly and densely informative, beautifully and generously
illustrated, a valuable and accessible work of general reference' -
Financial Times
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