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| 9c7fc34 | The social institutions and attitudes inherited from earlier times and maintained with increasing rigidity made it difficult to adapt to changing circumstances or to create new political and economic institutions which would facilitate such an adaption. An attitude towards unbelievers that varied from condescension in good times, to hostility and mistrust in bad times, made it difficult to learn from them, or even to understand them, at a t.. | Bernard Lewis (Author) | ||
| f185d7a | Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind. | mankind history cultures islam | Bernard Lewis (Author) |