Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism

Jonathan Lyons

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January, 2012
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15894-7
$32.50 / £22.50

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• Read a review in the Boston Globe.
• Islam, Women, and the West, Jonathan Lyons's essay for "Informed Comment."
• Jonathan Lyons offers a New Model for Understanding the World of Islam.
• Jonathan Lyons on Women and Islam
• Joanthan Lyons takes The Page 99 Test.
• Visit Jonathan Lyons's Web site and blog
• Read a review from Publishers Weekly.

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Jonathan Lyons spent twenty years as a foreign correspondent and editor for Reuters, much of it in the Islamic world. His research focuses on the shifting boundaries between East and West, and his publications include The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization and (with Geneive Abdo) Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-first-Century Iran. He has a doctorate in sociology and lives in Washington, D.C.

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