Islam in history : ideas, people, and events in the Middle East / Bernard Lewis.

"This 2nd edition was formerly issued with the ISBNs 0-8126-9216-0 (cloth) and 0-8126-9217-9(pbk)."

Incluye bibliografía e índice (p. 459-462)

Preface -- Part I. The Western approaches. 1. The study of Islam -- 2. Some English travelers in the East -- 3. The decolonization of history -- 4. On writing the modern history of the Middle East -- 5. On nationalism and revolution -- 6. Slade on Turkey -- Part II. Muslim history and historians. 7. Sources for the economic history of the Middle East -- 8. In search of Islam's past -- 9. The use of Muslim historians of non-Muslim sources -- 10. The cult of Spain and the Turkish romantics -- Part III. Muslims and Jews. 11. The pro-Islamic Jews -- 12. Palestine : on the history and geography of a name -- 13. An ode against the Jews -- 14. The sultan, the king, and the Jewish doctor -- Part IV. Turks and Tatars. 15. The Mongols, the Turks, and the Muslim policy -- 16. Ottoman observers of Ottoman decline -- 17. The Ottoman empire and its aftermath -- 18. Ibn Khaldun in Turkey -- Part IV. In black and white. 19. Cosairs in Iceland -- 20. The crows of the Arabs -- Part VI. History and revolution. 21. Sate and society under Islam -- 22. The significance of heresy in Islam -- 23. The revolutions in early Islam -- 24. Islamic concepts of revolution -- Part VII. New ideas. 25. The idea of freedom in modern Islamic political thought -- 26. On modern Arabic political terms -- 27. Islam and development : the revaluation of values -- Part VIII. New events. 28. Behind the Rushdie affair -- 29. The Egyptian murder case -- 30. How Khomeni made it -- 31. The revolt of Islam -- 32. The Middle East crisis in historical perspective -- Notes -- Sources -- Index.