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From Babel to dragomans
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ISBN: 0190291621 1280428139 0198038631 1602565058 9780198038634 0195173368 9780195173369 0195184483 9780195184488 0197713254 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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The author brings together four decades of his essays, articles, and other writings on the Middle East.

The Arabs in history
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ISBN: 1280444541 0191587664 1423757416 9781423757412 9780191587665 0192803107 9780192803108 0192852582 9781280444548 9780192852588 0192852582 0191647160 Year: 1993 Publisher: Oxford New York

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`Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is one of us.' Thus ran a declaration of modern leaders of Arab states. But what exactly is an Arab, and what has been their place in the course of human history? In this well-established classic, Professor Lewis examines the key issues of Arab development - their identity, the national revival which cemented the creation of the Islamic state, and the social and economic pressures that destroyed the Arab kingdom and created the Islamic empire. He analyses the forces which contributed to

Islam and the West
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ISBN: 019028238X 1281346721 0198023936 9780198023937 9780195076196 0195076192 0195090616 9780195090611 0195076192 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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Essays discuss the interaction of Europe and its Islamic neighbors, the difficulties of translating classic Arabic, Arab fundamentalism, and life in the Islamic world today.

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