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''Islam and the West'' is a Book written by Middle-East historian and scholar Bernard Lewis .

The book deals with the relations between Islam and Western Civlization. It is divided into 3 sections.
The first section treats the history of the interactions between Europe and the Islamic world. The second section is concerned the perceptions arising from these interactions by both societies. The third and final section is concerned with Islamic responses and reactions in earlier and recent times .


QUOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

  • Historians in free countries have a moral and professional obligation not to shirk the difficult issues and subjects that some people would place under a sort of taboo; not to submit to voluntary censorship, but to deal with these matters fairly, honestly, without apologetics, without polemic, and, of course, competently. Those who enjoy freedom have a moral obligation to use that freedom for those who do not possess it. We live in a time when great efforts have been made, and continue to be made, to falsify the record of the past and to make history a tool of propaganda; when governments, religious movements, political parties, and sectional groups of every kind are busy rewriting history as they would wish it to have been, as they would like their followers to believe that it was. All this is very dangerous indeed, to ourselves and to others, however we may define otherness -- dangerous to our common humanity. Because, make no mistake, those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future.



CONTENTS

Encounters
  • 1 Europe and Islam

  • 2 Legal and Historical Reflections on the Position of Muslim Populations Under Non-Muslim Rule

    • Studies and Perceptions

  • 3 Translation from Arabic

  • 4 The Ottoman Obsession

  • 5 Gibbon on Muhammad

  • 6 The Question of Orientalism

  • 7 Other People's History

    • Islamic Response and Reaction

  • 8 The Return of Islam

  • 9 The Shia in Islamic History

  • 10 Counts and Freedom

  • 11 Religious Coexistence and Secularism