01989cam a22002774a 4500008004100000020001800041020001500059020001800074020001500092040000800107050002400115100002000139245006700159260005700226300001100283490008200294500002000376505024300396505001700639518001500656520081400671650003701485651005601522651005001578710008301628110519s2011    cau           001 0 eng    a9780817912949  a0817912940  a9780817912963  a0817912967  aSDU00aDS63.1bL673 E 20111 aLewis, Bernard,14aThe end of modern history in the Middle East /cBernard Lewis.  aStanford, Calif. :bHoover Institution Press,c2011.  a188 p.0 aHerbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order  aIncludes index.0 aThe historian's vision : the craft of Bernard Lewis / Fouad Ajami -- The end of modern history in the Middle East -- Propaganda in the Middle East -- Iran : Haman or Cyrus? -- The new anti-Semitism -- First religion, then race, then what?0 aHKBU library  aYT2025 M08  aThe 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. 0aIslam and politicszMiddle East. 0aMiddle EastxPolitics and governmenty21st century. 0aMiddle EastxSocial conditionsy21st century.2 aHerbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order.