Book description
In this immensely readable and wide-ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts
the successive transformations of the Middle East, beginning with the
two great empires, the Roman and the Persian, and covering the growth of
Christianity, the rise and spread of Islam, the waves of invaders from
the east, the Mongol hordes of Jengiz Khan, the rise of the Ottoman
Turks, and the changing balance of power between the Muslim and
Christian worlds. 'This book is a masterpiece' Sir Anthony Parsons,
Daily Telegraph Bernard Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern
Studies at Princeton University. Formerly Professor of Middle Eastern
History at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London,
1949-74.
