Bernard Lewis - Books

Books

• The Origins of Ismailism (1940)
• A Handbook of Diplomatic and Political Arabic (1947)
• The Arabs in History (1950)
• The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961)
• Istanbul and the Civilizations of the Ottoman Empire (1963)
• The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam (1967)
• The Cambridge History of Islam (2 vols. 1970, revised 4 vols. 1978, editor with Peter Malcolm Holt and Ann K.S. Lambton)
• Islam: From the Prophet Muhammad to the capture of Constantinople (1974, editor)
• History — Remembered, Recovered, Invented (1975)
• Race and Color in Islam (1979)
• Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society (1982, editor with Benjamin Braude)
• The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982)
• The Jews of Islam (1984)
• Semites and Anti-Semites (1986)
• Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople (1987)
• The Political Language of Islam (1988)
• Race and Slavery in the Middle East: an Historical Enquiry (1990)
• Islam and the West (1993)
• Islam in History (1993)
• The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (1994)
• Cultures in Conflict (1994)
• The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (published in U.K. as The Middle East: 2,000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day) (1995)
• The Future of the Middle East (1997)
• The Multiple Identities of the Middle East (1998)
• A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History (2000)
• Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems (2001)
• The Muslim Discovery of Europe (2001)
• What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East (2002)
• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (2003)
• From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East (2004)
• Islam: The Religion and the People (2008, with Buntzie Ellis Churchill)
• Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East (2010) Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514421-5
• The End of Modern History in the Middle East (2011) Hoover Institution Press.
• Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian (2012) ISBN 978-0-670-02353-0