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Encyclopedia > What Went Wrong

What Went Wrong? : Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response is a book by Bernard Lewis released in January 2002. It was written shortly before the September 11 terrorist attack. The nucleus of this book appeared as an article published in The Atlantic Monthly in January 2002. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (430x648, 65 KB)book cover File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (430x648, 65 KB)book cover File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Prof. ... A huge plume of smoke and fire can be seen emerging from the North Tower. ... February 1862 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, with The Battle Hymn of the Republic on the front page. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...


The book's thesis is that throughout recent history, specifically beginning with the failure of the second Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, the Islamic world has failed to modernize or to keep pace with the Western world in a variety of respects, and that this failure has been seen by many within the Islamic world as having allowed Western powers to acquire a disastrous position of dominance over those regions. The book also details other various shortcomings of modernization in the Islamic world, such as general resistance to constructing public clocks, lack of standardized linear measurements, and pervasive autocracy. Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (the Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power (1683) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Sogut (1299-1326), Bursa (1326-1365), Edirne (1365-1453), İstanbul (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanlı Dynasty... Combatants Habsburgs, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Ottoman Empire and its allies Khanate of Crimea, Central Hungary, Transylvania, Wallachia, Moldavia Commanders Jan III Sobieski, Charles V, Duke of Lorraine Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha Strength 70,000 138,000 Casualties 4,000 dead 15,000 dead The Battle of Vienna (Turkish: İkinci Viyana... Events June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the worlds first university museum. ... The Islamic world is the world-wide community of those who identify with Islam, known as Muslims, and who number approximately one-and-a-half billion people. ... Time measuring instrument A clock (from the Latin cloca, bell) is an instrument for measuring time. ... An Autocracy is a form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual. ...


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