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Bernard Lewis is the foremost Western historian of Islam and the Middle East His most recent book, What Went Wrong?, has already spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list Includes a new Preface for the paperback edition 'No one writes about Muslim history with greater authority, or intelligence, or literary charm than Professor Bernard Lewis' Sunday Times 'Professor Lewis has succeeded with his usual carefulness, probity and skill' TLS 'Learned, lucid and elegant...with great skill [Lewis] disentangles truth from legend' Economist

About the Author

Bernard Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Formerly Professor of Middle Eastern History at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London, 1949-74.