Suggested Readings: Islam and the West

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
By Samuel P. Huntington
ISBN: 0-68-484441-9

"Huntington has written a brilliant, riveting, and utterly original book, masterful in presentation and brimming with insight, its disturbing conclusions corroborated by an impressive array of data and well-chosen quotations. How Huntington makes his case is no less impressive than the argument itself. The author's style is precise, pithy, plainspoken, and coolly analytical." —A. J. Bacevich, director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University

Islam and the West
By Bernard Lewis
ISBN: 0-19-509061-6

"Bernard Lewis 's brilliant book of essays, 'Islam and the West,' weaves a seamless web between past and present. In a collection of remarkable learning and range Mr. Lewis takes us, as he alone among today's historians and interpreters of Islam can, from the early encounters of Christendom and Islam to today's Islamic dilemmas." — Fouad Ajami, director of Middle East Studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University

The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
By Bernard Lewis
ISBN: 0-684-83280-1

"This 'brief history of the last 2,000 years,' by the twentieth century's preeminent historian of the Islamic world, is written with its author's customary wit and gravity, sympathy and objectivity, breadth and precision. As in all his many works, Bernard Lewis is here neither an old-fashioned chronicler nor a with-it historical revisionist but rather a master distiller, one who combines a phenomenal range of knowledge with a humane temperament and a powerfully synthesizing mind." — Robert B. Satloff, editor of Campaign against Terror: The Middle East Dimension

Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923
By Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh
ISBN: 0-674-25152-0

"In a tour de force that offers a profoundly new understanding of a key issue in modern Middle Eastern history, Efraim and Inari Karsh review the relations between Europe and the Ottoman empire in the final century-and-a-half of the latter's existence, and in the process nearly reverse the standard historical interpretation." — Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum