Title: The failure of modernization
Product review: Lewis is the dean of Middle- Eastern historians. In this work he attempts to understand why most of the nations of the Middle East failed to meet the challenge of Modernity. One major source of this was the traditional relation to Women. Another major source was the closure of Mind which would not admit that the West had developed in ways which the world of Islam could learn from. A sense of defeat and inferiority did not lead to honest introspection and reform, but rather to Denial. The increasing sense of failure enabled the retaining of power by bureaucratic and governmental elites which worked not for the benefit of people or nation as a whole, but rather for their own narrow clan and group interests.
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