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| 50e5859 | For the study of Middle Eastern history, and at the present time one might even add of world history, some knowledge of Islam's origins and of its scriptures is necessary. Already in my student years I was reading the Koran, the biography of the Prophet, and the extensive literature concerned with them. But at no time did I specialize in these topics. I am not an expert in theology or scripture, and I looked at these, if at all, only with a.. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| e1864ae | Terrorism requires only a few. Obviously, the West must defend itself by whatever means will be effective. But in devising means to fight the terrorists, it would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| 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) | ||
| b6b06b3 | wholly given up to villainy and debauchery, and ride the steed of perfidy and presumption, and dive into the sea of error and impiety, and are united under the banner of Satan. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| 2b38643 | the first Airstream to roll off the assembly line, in 1936, was called the Clipper and was modeled on a design created by Hawley Bowlus, designer of Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. An | Philip Caputo | ||
| 516107f | Bernard Lewis was most likely unaware of the Turkish leader's fan base among Nazis and Fascists when he hailed Ataturk for taking, with his attempted obliteration of Islam, 'the first decisive steps in the acceptance of Western civilization'. Nevertheless, Lewis as well as Ataturk was working with an ideal of civilization originally posited by salon intellectuals in the eighteenth century, and reworked by various modernizers of the twentiet.. | Pankaj Mishra | ||
| 5f1ad3d | With few exceptions the pietists are assigned a minor role in the creation of the Arab Empire. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| f185d7a | Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind. | cultures history islam mankind | Bernard Lewis (Author) | |
| d883bbb | Black slaves seem to have cost from two to three hundred dirhams; black eunuchs, at least two or three times as much. Female black slaves were sold at five hundred dirhams or so; trained singing girls or other performers, at ten or even twenty thousand. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| c019643 | The cultivation of cotton and sugar, which the Arabs brought from the East across North Africa and into Spain, most probably entailed some kind of plantation system. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| d01e50a | In medieval times most singers, dancers, and musical performers were, at least in origin, slaves. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| e09ca80 | Uncertainty may be beneficial in that it invites further research and further thought. But uncertainty disguised as certainty is dangerous. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| f9c43a6 | But racism is most outrageously to the fore in 'Ashraf and Anjab', in which the sadistically villainous Anjab is described by Harun al-Rashid as follows: 'This man is black as a negro ... with red eyes, a nose like a clay pot and lips like kidneys', and his mother is no better looking for she 'was black as pitch with a snub nose, red eyes and an unpleasant smell'. In 'Sa'id Son of Hatim' the monk Simeon predicts that the shrine of the Ka'ba.. | Malcolm C. Lyons | ||
| f0c9628 | Western technology made slavery unnecessary; Western ideas made it intolerable. | west western-civilization | Bernard Lewis | |
| b342cd7 | the governor of the Hijaz sent an order to the district governor of Mecca prohibiting the trade in slaves. The district governor was instructed to read the order aloud at the Shari a court of Mecca in the presence of the ulema and the sharifs. This took place on October 30, 1855 [...] This was the moment for which the sharif had been waiting. On his instructions, Shaykh Jamal issued a fatwa denouncing the ban on the slave trade as contrary .. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| 7f535bb | Bernard Lewis, a lifelong student of Jews and Islam and himself a Jew, reflected on the fourteen centuries of Jewish life under Islamic rule, eight centuries after Maimonides' damning verdict. Lewis wrote: 'The Jews were never free from discrimination, but only rarely subject to persecution.' He noted that the situation of Jews living under Islamic rulers was 'never as bad as in Christendom at its worst, nor ever as good as in Christendom a.. | Martin Gilbert | ||
| f45de68 | Clarity of thought will normally produce clarity of style; obscurity of thought will produce obscurity of style. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| 864cac5 | Fighters in a jihad are enjoined not to kill women, children, and the aged unless they attack first, not to torture or mutilate prisoners, to give fair warning of the resumption of hostilities after a truce, and to honor agreements. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| ace962c | In recent years, there have been some changes of perception and, consequently, of tactics among Muslims. Some of them still see the West in general and its present leader the United States in particular as the ancient and irreconcilable enemy of Islam, the one serious obstacle to the restoration of God's faith and law at home and their ultimate universal triumph. For these there is no way but war to the death, in fulfillment of what they se.. | Bernard Lewis | ||
| bf9727e | The plotting he'd had to do to come to this point had exhausted Kidman's capacity for calculation; his natural, impulsive violence was regaining the upper hand. | Philip Caputo | ||
| 7529d34 | that the greatest happiness lies in living for others. The self and its appetites, the satisfaction of which only yields deeper hungers, are to the soul as mooring cables to an airship. To cut them willingly and without regret is to know true emancipation, the kind that cannot be granted by constitutions, proclamations, manifestos. Yes, | Philip Caputo | ||
| 7220794 | Their era was ending when Jim Clyman got to Independence in '44 and found Bill Sublette, who had first taken wagons up the Platte Valley in 1830, now taking invalids to Brown's Hole for a summer's outing. It was twenty-one years since Jim had first gone up the Missouri, forty years since Lewis and Clark wintered at the Mandan villages, thirty-three years since Wilson Hunt led the Astorians westward, twenty years since Clyman with Smith and .. | Bernard DeVoto | ||
| c92ac73 | The medieval European, who shared the fundamental assumptions of his Muslim contemporary, would have agreed with him in ascribing religious movements to religious causes, and would have sought no further for an explanation. But when Europeans ceased to accord first place to religion in their thoughts, sentiments, interests, and loyalties, they also ceased to admit that other men, in other times and places, could have done so. To a rationali.. | islam religion theology | Bernard Lewis | |
| b321219 | Bernard Lewis precise que << les nationalistes extremistes continuaient a voir dans l'Allemagne hitlerienne un modele, une source d'inspiration et un guide susceptible de les soutenir dans leur lutte contre leurs deux ennemis jures, l'Occident et les juifs182 >>. | Alexandre Del Valle | ||
| 1258481 | In France, the literary fairy tale was a genre initially established by a group of women (and a few men, including Perrault, who frequented their circles and salons). Lewis Seifert has estimated that more than two-thirds of the tales that appeared during the first wave of fairy-tale production in France (between 1690 and 1715) were written by women. For more than a century the tales of d'Aulnoy, Lheritier, La Force, Bernard, and other women.. | Elizabeth Wanning Harries | ||
| c3ffe37 | the Bogdanov theory excited debate among physicists as to whether it was twaddle, a work of genius, or a hoax. 'Scientifically, it's clearly more or less complete nonsense, Columbia University physicist Peter Woit told the New York Times, 'but these days that doesn't much distinguish it from a lot of the rest of the literature. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 4ef5f7c | What finger-shaped Florida lacks in breadth it makes up for in length; Tallahassee is 480 miles from Miami (farther than New York City is from Cleveland). The | Philip Caputo | ||
| 0648bf1 | I had only one hard-and-fast rule: avoid interstates. They are predictable and boring, and their uniformity somehow erases changes in landscape; you can drive six hundred miles, from forests into desert, and feel that you haven't gone anywhere. In a sense, you haven't. You have no idea about the lives of the people in the towns and cities you've bypassed at seventy miles an hour. * | Philip Caputo | ||
| afac62e | Key West has become an imitation of its former self, its eccentricities commoditized for sale to tourists. That "character" you see with a parrot on his shoulder is about as authentic as vinyl siding, employed to provide local color. Gargantuan cruise ships dock two or three times a week, disgorging passengers by the thousands to troll the cheesy T-shirt shops on the main drag, Duval Street. And with all sorts of diversions to keep visitors.. | Philip Caputo | ||
| d40e53f | Aside from their companionship, I'd brought Sage and Sky as ambassadors, hoping they would attract attention and open the door to conversations with strangers. In a moment, they fulfilled their diplomatic function. | Philip Caputo | ||
| 2b9e06b | I really believe that when we start talking ourselves back, we'll have more to offer the world." he [Woodenkinfe] said. "I don't want a gray world." "You mean taking back our cultures and where we come from." "Absolutely! You want to talk about the fabric of this country, that's it." "So rather than a melting pot, it would be a..." "A blanket of color, all sewn in the shape of the U.S." | Philip Caputo | ||
| f7e3ef3 | Those people who occupy a territory determine the nature of the society in that region. | Arthur Kemp | ||
| 0ce45db | Someone had told me, years ago, that Key West's latitude was the northernmost from which the Southern Cross was visible. I had glimpsed it just once, in 1980, while on a night swordfishing trip in the Gulf Stream. It hung a hand's width above the horizon in the southwest--four stars like the points of a crystal kite. On | Philip Caputo | ||
| b2c5c96 | Key West has become an imitation of its former self, | Philip Caputo | ||
| 50ab305 | Dog Soldier Raid at New Scandinavia--1869, | Philip Caputo | ||
| d26c0c2 | Fitzhugh wasn't immune to the desire that's in most people to spray graffiti on the cold rock of the world and say "I was here and what I did counted for something." | Philip Caputo | ||
| 6042626 | The total distance--11,741 miles--gave me sticker shock. Round it up to twelve thousand. Almost halfway around the world! It seemed slightly mad, but then it might do me good. To make such an epic road trip, discovering places I'd never been, rediscovering others, never knowing what I'd find beyond the next curve or hill, would be to recapture the enchantment of youth, a sense of promise and possibility. The cicada chirped incessantly in my.. | Philip Caputo | ||
| b3d5090 | When Senta started singing it was spellbinding--Daphne said this word to herself with a further shiver of pleasure. | Alan Hollinghurst | ||
| c249563 | I don't care if your the President of the United States, the Queen of England, the inventor of the microchip, a bankable movie star, or an ordinary Joe or Jill, you're no paragon in my book, but the same as a zebra or gazelle - a source of protein. In fact, I'd rather hunt you, because you're slow and feeble. | man man-eater nature to-the-point | Philip Caputo | |
| cbbe2ad | with the great love of the unknown and vast dreams of dominion and power, | Philip Caputo | ||
| 3a6b125 | We had survived, but in war, a man does not have to be killed or wounded to become a casualty. His life, his sight, or limbs are not the only things he stands to lose. | Philip Caputo | ||
| 1644413 | uniforms | Philip Caputo | ||
| c140e1f | I can see perfectly and clearly. And my glasses are still on the nightstand. I bolt upright and look around my room. Everything - every poster, every tool, every spare part, every spool of wire - I can see it all crisp and clear. I saw every strand of Mom's hair in perfect precision. Her tired eyes. The steam rising from her mug. It should've all been a blurred mess of colored blobs. I should've had to drag my glasses on before any of my .. | M.G. Buehrlen | ||
| 0301b83 | A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of it ever underwent sex unless she was hot. Pretending to be hot bears a distinct resemblance to self-rape, but it's a rape accompanied by boredom instead of fear. | Norman Rush |