02249cam a2200349 i 4500 16785924 EG-ScBUE 20240529115644.0 110519s2011 cau f 001 0 eng d 9780817912949 0817912940 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP HIN BWX DLC EG-ScBUE aw----- 956.054 22 LEW Lewis, Bernard, 1916- author. The end of modern history in the Middle East / Bernard Lewis. Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, 2011. xxvi, 188 pages ; 23 cm. rdacontent text txt unmediated rdamedia n volume nc rdacarrier Herbert and Jane Dwight working group on Islamism and the international order Includes index. The historian's vision : the craft of Bernard Lewis / Fouad Ajami -- The end of modern history in the Middle East -- Propaganda in the Middle East -- Iran : Haman or Cyrus? -- The new anti-Semitism -- First religion, then race, then what? 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. Islam and politics Middle East. BUEsh 11983 Middle East Politics and government 21st century. BUEsh 22790 Middle East Social conditions 21st century. BUEsh 22774 BUSBOL November2016 Reading book ddc BB 23288 23260 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 2ND 2016-11-23 Purchase 153.00 23587 0 956.054 LEW 000034973 2025-07-15 00:00:00 191.00 2016-11-23 BB