Detail from book cover.
Detail from book cover.

What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

Mar 26, 2002

In this learned talk given just six months after 9/11, Lewis explains that in the Middle East there are two prevailing opinions about why the Islamic world now lags behind the West. One is that it has failed to keep up with modernity. The other is almost the exact opposite: it has become too much "like the infidels" and abandoned its own traditions and faith.

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