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The Islamic world has always posed a great challenge to the western Christian Civilization leading to wide ranging scholastic output from European scholars and writers. The historical and intellectual association of Islam and the western world spans several centuries starting with European travelogues of the seventeenth century to the contemporary western writers preoccupation with men and events of the Islamic world. From the first expansion of Islam to the ...
What does Jihad really mean? What is the Muslim conception of law? What is Islam's stance towards unbelievers? Probing literary and historical sources, Bernard Lewis traces the development of Islamic political language from the time of the prophet to the present. His analysis of documents written in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish illuminates differences between Muslim political thinking and western political theory, and clarifies the perception, discussion, and ...