In 2012 the 96-year-old Bernard Lewis went on American radio to promote his book Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian. Neal Conan, the host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, ...
Chapter 1: Introduction: The embarrassing institution -- The nature of slavery in Islam -- Rhythms of expansion and contraction -- Slave numbers -- Orientalist contradictions -- The logic of Islamic ...
American Alt: Madness, Friendship, and the Search for Home in the Land of Unreality Fascism’s origins are inextricable from American slavery, according to this penetrating study. Historian Kelly ...
"What's going on is a nation-building process. It's similar to what happened at the end of World War I, when major empires were destroyed." Many scholars have traced the intra-Christian conflicts over ...