Bernard Lewis wrote history of the Middle East and Islam, particularly the Ottoman Empire, political institutions and relations between Muslim societies and the West. The Middle East offers a broad historical survey from the rise of Christianity and Islam into the modern era, while The Emergence of Modern Turkey focuses on the Ottoman collapse and formation of the Turkish Republic. What Went Wrong? examines why parts of the Islamic world lost political and technological advantage relative to Europe, an argument that has also attracted substantial criticism and debate. Lewis’s prose is clear, sweeping and interpretive rather than narrowly archival in presentation. His work belongs with Middle Eastern history, Ottoman studies and twentieth-century debates about Islam and modernity. Read more Less
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