Christians and Muslims share the belief that they are the fortunate recipient of the final God message. — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
In most of the countries in the Muslim world today, most of them are autocratic regimes that are unpopular if not detested… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Certainly Tunisia was the first in Muslim world. It's been like that for a long time and women play an important part… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
You see in the Muslim traditions, it's very clear: maintaining law and consultation, not being arbitrary and oppressive. Consultation. And also in… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“The medieval islamic world offered vastly more freedom than any of its predecessors, its contemporaries and most of its successors” — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that;… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
They call themselves Sephardic Jews, but that's not the important thing. The important thing is that some come from the Muslim world… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“Secularism in the Christian world was an attempt to resolve the long and destructive struggle of church and state. Separation, adopted in… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
In the Christian world, as you remember, Christianity is in the 21st century, Islam is in the 15th century. I don't mean… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the important point which I've been trying to get across is that Islam, from the very beginning, is strongly, clearly… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
I think confronted with the modern world or with the rest of the world, I think people are becoming aware that the… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Moses led his people through the wilderness and he wasn't permitted to enter the Promised Land. Jesus was crucified. Mohammad founded a… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Islam and Islamic values now have a level of immunity from comment and criticism in the Western world that Christianity has lost… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
You see Christians and Muslims have one thing in common which they do not share with their other religions as far as… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Muslims are very keenly aware of the history of their community, of the history of that relationship between their community and the… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“As Osama bin Laden puts it: "In this final phase of the ongoing struggle, the world of the infidels was divided between… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
These internal clashes in Israel nowadays are in a sense a continuation of a clash between Islam and Christendom through their former… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“For the study of Middle Eastern history, and at the present time one might even add of world history, some knowledge of… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
“Different groups in the [Middle East] drew two lessons from [return of the shah in Iran] - one, that Americans were willing to use… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
You see in the Muslim traditions, it's very clear: maintaining law and consultation, not being arbitrary and oppressive. Consultation. And also in the Muslim… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
I know it is said repeatedly that I was in support of the American invasion in Iraq. It is simply not true. I was… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Certainly Tunisia was the first in Muslim world. It's been like that for a long time and women play an important part in Tunisia.… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively modern but… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
When we talk about the Judeo-Christian or the Judeo-Muslim tradition, it's important to remember that we are speaking of a Jewish component of civilization,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same thing. But… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
You see in Turkey, they had a remarkable success story in building up a democracy. I was in Istanbul for most of the year… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
In the Christian world, as you remember, Christianity is in the 21st century, Islam is in the 15th century. I don't mean to say… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
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