Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople: Politics and War

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Summary: Bernard Lewis is a racist, anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab writer
Review: Bernard Lewis is a racist, anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab writer. I do not recommend any of his work. I find his work to be not accurate, and offensive.

Rating:
Summary: Well measured and critical response
Review: This is not Bernard Lewis's best work, but it still retains his unbiased, scholarly yet readable style of his previous efforts. He is unflinching - which upsets many zealots - in his analysis and lacking in apologist platitudes, but without honesty, there can be no literature.

I hope he continues to document Middle Eastern history uneffected by political and religous fundamentalism. The literature of history needs him.

Rating:
Summary: Well measured and critical response
Review: This is not Bernard Lewis's best work, but it still retains the unbiased, scholarly yet readable style of his previous efforts. He is unflinching - which upsets many zealots - in his analysis and lacking in apologist platitudes, but without honesty, there can be no literature.

I hope he continues to document Middle Eastern history uneffected by political and religous fundamentalism. The literature of history needs him.