About this title: Why did Christian Europe become ascendant during the Age of Discovery after centuries of Islamic peoples being the dominant force in world trade and culture? This is one of the questions historian Bernard Lewis takes on in this examination of the interrelated fortunes of the Islamic, Christian and Judaic worlds. Lewis considers the strengths and weaknesses of all three cultures, and he clarifies why the refined Islamic world had a justifiable disdain for medieval Europe. The tides shifted during the Renaissance, however, and the Europeans' improving military technology played no small role ...
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780195102833ISBN:0195102835
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 203x135 mm. (112) bernard lewis uses the year 1492, a year laden with epic events and riven by political debate, to explore the clash between the jews, christendom, and islam, as well as that between the new world and the old. (Paperback) read more
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780195090260ISBN:0195090268
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: OUP USA
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780195102833ISBN:0195102835
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780195090260ISBN:0195090268
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Press, Oxford, UK
Date published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780195090260ISBN:0195090268
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780195102833ISBN:0195102835
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780195102833ISBN:0195102835
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780195102833ISBN:0195102835
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1996
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780195102833ISBN:0195102835
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780195102833ISBN:0195102835
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