Retour de L Islam

Bernard Lewis

Publié par Gallimard Education, le 01 septembre 1993

507 pages

Résumé

For centuries, the world of Islam was at the forefront of human achievement in military and economic power, in politics, and in the arts and sciences. Europe, by comparison, was a back water, a remote land on the northern fringes of Islamic civilization. Then everything changed and the west began to win one victory after another; on the battlefield, in the market place and in the struggle of ideas. What happened?