The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror.

LEWIS, Bernard.

Item Number: 107369

New York: The Modern Library, 2003.

First edition of this work which examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For John Bernard Lewis. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gabrielle Bordwin.

“Remarkably succinct . . . It offers a long view in the midst of so much short-termism and confusing punditry. Lewis has done us all—Muslim and non-Muslim alike—a remarkable service" (The New York Times Book Review).