The end of modern history in the Middle East

• Tác giả: Bernard Lewis
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0817912940
• ISBN-10: 0817912967
• ISBN-13: 978-0817912949
• ISBN-13: 978-0817912963
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 956.05 1980
• Thông tin xuất bản: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press , 2011
• Mô tả vật lý: xxvi, 188 p. ; , 23 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Lịch sử, Địa lý
• ID: 104095
• Chủ đề: 1. Islam and politics--Middle East; 2. Middle East--Politics and government--21st century; 3. Middle East--Social conditions--21st century

Tóm tắt

The author examines in detail the issues most critical to the region's future. He describes oil as the current, most important export to the outside world from the Middle East but warns that technology will eventually make it obsolete, leaving those who depend solely on oil revenues with a bleak future. The three factors that could most help transform the Middle East, according to Lewis, are Turkey, Israel, and women. He also argues that there is enough in the traditional culture of Islam on the one hand and the modern experience of the Muslim peoples on the other to provide the basis for an advance toward freedom in the true sense of that word and to achieve the social, cultural, and scientific changes necessary to bring the Middle East into line with the developed countries of both West and East.