9 de Mayo 2004

Entrevista a Bernard Lewis

En The Atlantic, hace ya unos días.

A los que no le conoceis "[c]onservatives tend to hail him as a priceless gem—the only scholar both erudite and honest enough to tell us the inflammatory truth about the condition of modern Islam. Leftists, particularly among his peers in academe, tend to regard him as a servant of imperial power, prone to making demeaning generalizations about Middle Eastern society, and arrogant enough to consider himself an objective scholar. The rift has deepened as Lewis's influence on Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of current White House policy in the Middle East, has become public knowledge."

Como introducción, además, podeis leer "Los árabes en la historia" que ha sido reeditada por Edhasa en un económica edición de bolsillo.