What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East

Synopsis

For centuries, the world of islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The west won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace.