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Bernard Lewis, FBA (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specializing in oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. LEWIS Europe and Islam 81 from victory to victory, from triumph to triumph, creating in less than a century a vast realm extending from the borders of India and China to the Pyrenees and the Atlantic, and ruling millions of new subjects, vast numbers of whom came eagerly to embrace the new faith and dispensation.

The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam
AuthorBernard Lewis
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAssassins
GenreHistory
PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson, Oxford University Press, Basic Books
Publication date
1967, 1987, 2002
Media typePrint
Pages166 (3rd ed.)
ISBN9780465004980 (3rd ed.)
OCLC1740057
297.822

The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam is a book, first published in 1967, written by Middle-East historian Bernard Lewis, and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.[1][2][3][4] An updated edition was published by Oxford University Press in 1987, and another[5] in 2002 by Basic Books.[6][7]

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Lewis, a British-American professor of history at Princeton University, traces the history of the secret Islamic sect known as the Assassins, an order of the Nizari Ismailis that used assassinations throughout the Middle Ages to achieve political, military, and religious goals.[8][9][10][11]Free proxy switcher. Cmd here windows 10.

The book has been noted for its arguments linking of the early assassins with modern Islamic terrorism.[4][10][11]

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  1. ^'Reviews : Bernard Lewis. The Assassins : A Radical Sect in Islam. London, Weiden feld and Nicolson, 1967. p. 166'. International Studies. SAGE. 11 (1): 103–04. July 1969. doi:10.1177/002088176901100108.
  2. ^Boyle, JA (April 1969). 'The Assassins: a radical sect in Islam. By Bernard Lewis, pp. 166, 14 ill., 2 maps. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967'. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Cambridge Journals. 101 (2): 171–72. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00127662.
  3. ^Rodinson, Maxime (2009). 'Bernard Lewis: The Assassins: a radical sect in Islam. X, 166 pp., 8 plates. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1967]. 30s'. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 32 (03): 612. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00097238. ISSN0041-977X.
  4. ^ abRushby, Kevin (22 September 2001). 'Passports to Paradise: Review: The Assassins by Bernard Lewis'. The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  5. ^'The Assassins : a radical sect in Islam (Book, 1987)'. WorldCat. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  6. ^Pape, Robert (28 May 2006). 'SUICIDE TERRORISM: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE : Death wishes'. Sunday Observer. Sri Lanka. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  7. ^Crenshaw, Martha (1995). Terrorism in context. Penn State Press. pp. 554–. ISBN9780271010151. Retrieved 4 April 2012. This work has become the standard work on the topic, and my brief discussion of Lewis' findings in no way does justice..
  8. ^Hoffman, Bruce (1995). ''Holy terror': The implications of terrorism motivated by a religious imperative'. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. 18 (4): 271–84. doi:10.1080/10576109508435985. ISSN1057-610X. The most detailed and comprehensive study of the group can be found in Bernard Lewis, The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam (London: A1 Saqi Books, 1985).
  9. ^Ajami, Fouad (1 October 2006). 'Fouad Ajami: The new boys of terror'. U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  10. ^ abPages, Meriem (2007). The image of the assassins in medieval European texts. ProQuest. pp. 33–35. ISBN9780549171683. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  11. ^ abHentsch, Thierry (1992). Imagining the Middle East. Black Rose Books Ltd. pp. 193–94. ISBN9781895431124. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
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For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory after victory, first in the battlefield and the marketplace, then in almost every aspect of public and even private life.In this intriguing volume, Bernard Lewis examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to understand why things had changed--how they had been overtaken, overshadowed, and to an increasing extent dominated by the West. Lewis provides a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil. He shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry and military tactics, commerce and industry, government and diplomacy, education and culture. Lewis highlights the striking differences between the Western and Middle Eastern cultures from the 18th to the 20th centuries through thought-provoking comparisons of such things as Christianity and Islam, music and the arts, the position of women, secularism and the civil society, the clock and the calendar.Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as 'the doyen of Middle Eastern studies,' Bernard Lewis is one of the West's foremost authorities on Islamic history and culture. In this striking volume, he offers an incisive look at the historical relationship between the Middle East and Europe.
  • Oxford University Press; January 2002
  • ISBN: 9780198032953
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  • Title: What Went Wrong?
  • Author: Bernard Lewis
  • Imprint: Oxford University Press
Subject categories
  • History > Asia
  • Political Science > International Relations
  • History > Middle East
  • History > History of Asia > Middle East. Southwestern Asia. Ancient Orient. Arab East. Near East
  • History > Modern
ISBNs
  • 0198032951
  • 9780195144208
  • 9780198032953
  • 9780199826636

In The Press

'Arguably the West's most distinguished scholar on the Middle East.'--Newsweek
'Lewis has done us all--Muslim and non-Muslim alike--a remarkable service..The book's great strength, and its claim upon our attention, [is that] it offers a long view in the midst of so much short-term and confusing punditry on television, in the op-ed pages, on campuses and in strategic studies think tanks.'--Paul Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review
'When it comes to Islamic studies, Bernard Lewis is the father of us all. With brilliance, integrity, and extraordinary mastery of languages and sources, he has led the way for Jewish and Christian investigators seeking to understand the Muslim world.'--National Review
'A timely and provocative contribution to the current raging debate about the tensions between the West and the Islamic world..One wishes leaders in the Islamic world would pay heed to some of Lewis' themes.'--Stanley Reed, Business Week
'A sobering picture, delivered with persuasive detail and respect. Bernard Lewis comes not to bury Islam, but to praise what it once was--and might be again.'--Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer
'Lucidly argued and richly supported by telling quotations..Lewis is a persuasive chronicler of Muslim resistance to change and modernity.'--Robert Irwin, Washington Post Book World
'An accessible and excitingly knowledgeable antidote to today's natural sense of befuddlement.'--Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun
'Replete with the exceptional historical insight that one has come to expect from the world's foremost Islamic scholar.'--Karen Elliott House, Wall Street Journal
'A provocative and suggestive review of Islamic response to ideas and practices of the Christian West..Lewis has given us a thoughtful treatment of the historical backdrop of the Sept. 11 tragedy.'--Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle
'A compelling book. One of our most distinguished historians throws a floodlight on that cruel divide between the West and the societies of Islam. Learned and urgent at the same time.'--Fouad Ajami, The Johns Hopkins University
'I know of no other scholar of Islam in the Western world who has more thoroughly earned the respect of generalists and academics alike than Bernard Lewis, a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world..He has produced a topical, accessible and excitingly knowledgeable antidote to today's natural sense of befuddlement.'--Michael Pakenham, Baltimore Sun
'An introduction to some important issues--and a lot of food for thought.'--Christian Science Monitor
'Only a scholar of Bernard Lewis's quality could produce the sweep and depth of this fascinating analysis. He gives meaning to history, and illumination and challenge to the question he poses. He brings a clear and lively style to this beautifully written book.'--George P. Shultz
'Muslim loss of civilizational leadership and retreat from modernity is at the center of global history over the last five hundred years and remains at this very time a major factor in international conflicts and diplomatic quarrels. What went wrong? Indeed. Muslims often have the feeling that history has somehow betrayed them, and on no comparable issue is the historian's potential contribution more important--the more so because the subject is plagued by ideological commitments, partisan blather, and the constraints of political correctness. People have shunned the topic for all the wrong reasons. All the more reason to be grateful for Bernard Lewis's interventions. No one knows better the languages and motivations of the players, and no one is more reliable in the objectivity of his judgments.'--David Landes, Harvard University
'Both scholarly and interesting, it is a treat to read history from a Muslim perspective. It is very instructive for acquiring both religious and cultural understanding.'--Timothy Yoder, Assistant Professor, Philadelphia Biblical University

About The Author

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Bernard Lewis is the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University. A highly eminent authority on Middle Eastern history, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, The Muslim Discovery of Europe and The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years.