What Went Wrong?
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- 24 January 2002
- book
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
Abstract
For a long time, people in the Midlle East have been asking themselves and each other this agonizing question - what went wrong? How did the most advanced, creative, flourishing, enlightened, and also the richest and most powerful civilization in the world lose both its strength and leadership and become - in various perspectives - the victim, the prey, the war, the pupil of the West. This book examines the different aspects of the encounter with the West - guns, factories, parliament, monogamy, technology, the sciences and the arts, and the Middle Eastern response to them. Finally, it reviews the different ways in which this question has been formulated, the various diagnoses of what ails the Middle East, and the prescriptions for its cure.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: