- Imperialisme, Zukunft, Moderniteit, Historia
"For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement - the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and epic.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Bernard Lewis
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), Perennial, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780195180343
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“The Treaty Of Carlowitz has a special importance in the history of the Ottoman Empire, and even, more broadly, in the history of the Islamic world, as the first peace signed by a defeated Ottoman Empire with victorious Christian adversaries.”
A British-American historian, scholar in Oriental studies, and political commentator. He specializes in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West, and is especially famous in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire.
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