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The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
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Bernard Lewis" The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror"
M..n L..y (3-2003) | EPUB+MOBI | 224 pages | ISBN: 0679642811 | 1.1Mb
In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism.
He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, and Saudi oil money, on the rest of the Islamic world.
The Crisis of Islam ranges widely through thirteen centuries of history, but in particular it charts the key events of the twentieth century leading up to the violent confrontations of today: the creation of the state of Israel, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the September 11th attacks on the United States.
While hostility toward the West has a long and varied history in the lands of Islam, its current concentration on America is new. So too is the cult of the suicide bomber. Brilliantly disentangling the crosscurrents of Middle Eastern history from the rhetoric of its manipulators, Bernard Lewis helps us understand the reasons for the increasingly dogmatic rejection of modernity by many in the Muslim world in favor of a return to a sacred past. Based on his George Polk Award–winning article for The New Yorker, The Crisis of Islam is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Usama bin Ladin represents and why his murderous message resonates so widely in the Islamic world.
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There is no holy war in Islam, but self defense.
Crisis in Islam? Then why after September 11 attacks, Americans convert to Islam?
Bin Laden was already dead.
In addition to his academic activities, Bernard Lewis is an intellectual engaged in the fight politics1. He is known for his DEFENSE OF ISRAEL
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lewis
YES revoluxion ce stupide bernard lewis est un sioniste
thanks
Thank you both for proving at least one point the author neglects to mention in this illuminating volume - the crisis of ignorance that has become the hallmark of Islam ever since the Middle Ages, and which seems to be immunized against any reason and moderation even in the Islamic communities of the West.
Grow the fuck up!
"we are the average intellectuals" - don't flatter yourself. Your cognitive abilities are those of a 6 y.o. (not very bright) kid.
"help the Iranians fuck your ass in the gulf" - because we all know that "fucking someone in the ass" is the highest of all aspirations for you. Perhaps it's a good time to ask yourself where your fixation on rectal penetration comes from.
Islamic maths was 500 years ahead
Will Dunham
Reuters
Patterned tiles
These 500 year old tiles from a Turkish mosque reflect a pattern not described until recently (Image: WB Denny)
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Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical advance 500 years earlier than Western scholars, scientists say.
By the 15th century, decorative tile patterns on these masterpieces of Islamic architecture reached such complexity that a small number boasted what seem to be "quasicrystalline" designs, write researchers today in the journal Science.
Only in the 1970s did UK mathematician and cosmologist Professor Roger Penrose become the first to describe these geometric designs in the West.
Quasicrystalline patterns comprise a set of interlocking units whose pattern never repeats, even when extended infinitely in all directions, and possess a special form of symmetry.
"Oh, it's absolutely stunning," says author Peter Lu from Harvard University.
"They made tilings that reflect mathematics that were so sophisticated that we didn't figure it out until the last 20 or 30 years."
In particular, Lu and co-author Professor Paul Steinhardt from Princeton University cite designs on the Darb-i Imam shrine in Isfahan, Iran, built in 1453.
Islamic tradition has frowned upon pictorial representations in artwork.
Mosques and other grand buildings erected by Islamic architects throughout the Middle East, Central Asia and elsewhere often are wrapped in rich, intricate tile designs setting out elaborate geometric patterns.
The walls of many medieval Islamic structures display sumptuous geometric star-and-polygon patterns.
The research indicated that by 1200 an important advance had occurred in Islamic mathematics and design, as illustrated by these geometric designs.
"You can go through and see the evolution of increasing geometric sophistication. So they start out with simple patterns, and they get more complex [over time]," Lu adds.
Islamic achievements
While Europe was mired in the Dark Ages, Islamic culture flourished beginning in the 7th century, with achievements over numerous centuries in mathematics, medicine, engineering, ceramics, art, textiles, architecture and other areas.
Lu says the new findings suggest Islamic culture was even more advanced than once thought.
While travelling in Uzbekistan, Lu says, he noticed a 16th century Islamic building with decagonal motif tiling, arousing his curiosity as to the existence of quasicrystalline Islamic tilings.
Worldwide attention
The sophistication of the patterns used in Islamic architecture has intrigued scholars worldwide.
Professor Emil Makovicky of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark in the 1990s noticed the relationship between these designs and a form of quasicrystalline designs.
Makovicky was interested in particular in an 1197 tomb in Maragha, Iran.
Associate Professor Joshua Socolar, a Duke University physicist, says it is unclear whether the medieval Islamic artisans fully understood the mathematical properties of the patterns they were making.
"It leads you to wonder whether they kind of got lucky," Socolar says. "But the fact remains that the patterns are tantalisingly close to having the structure that Penrose discovered in the mid-70s."
"And it will be a lot of fun if somebody turns up bigger tilings that sort of make a more convincing case that they understood even more of the geometry than the present examples show," Socolar says.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2007/02/23/1855313.htm?site=science&topic=latest
That's exactly the elitist bullshit the West serves its population, just in reverse (for example, racists arguing in favor of white supremacy because a white man invented electricity and not a black man and all that shit). Proving you're better at this or that doesn't help anyone.