From Babel to Dragomans

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East is a 2004 book written by Middle-East historian Bernard Lewis. The book comprises a series of scholarly essays and speeches given by Lewis over a period of four decades on the topic of the Middle East and the Islamic world.

Contents

 * Chapter 1 : An Islamic mosque
 * Chapter 2 : From Babel to Dragomans
 * Chapter 3 : Middle East feasts
 * Chapter 4 : Iran in history
 * Chapter 5 : Palimpsests of Jewish history : Christian, Muslim and secular diaspora
 * Chapter 6 : Some notes on land, money and power in medieval Islam
 * Chapter 7 : An interpretation of Fatimid history
 * Chapter 8 : Propaganda in the pre-modern Middle East : a preliminary classification
 * Chapter 9 : Monarchy in the Middle East
 * Chapter 10 : Religion and murder in the Middle East
 * Chapter 11 : The Mughals and the Ottomans
 * Chapter 12 : Europe and the Turks : the civilization of the Ottoman empire
 * Chapter 13 : Europe and Islam : Muslim perceptions and experience
 * Chapter 14 : Cold war and detente in the sixteenth century
 * Chapter 15 : From pilgrims to tourists : a survey of Middle Eastern travel
 * Chapter 16 : The British mandate for Palestine in historical perspective
 * Chapter 17 : Pan-Arabism
 * Chapter 18 : The emergence of modern Israel
 * Chapter 19 : Orientalist notes on the Soviet-United Arab Republic Treaty of 27 May 1971
 * Chapter 20 : A taxonomy of group hatred
 * Chapter 21 : Islam and the West
 * Chapter 22 : The Middle East, westernized despite itself
 * Chapter 23 : The Middle East in world affairs
 * Chapter 24 : Friends and enemies : reflections after a war
 * Chapter 25 : Return to Cairo
 * Chapter 26 : Middle East at prayer
 * Chapter 27 : At the United Nations
 * Chapter 28 : The anti-Zionist resolution
 * Chapter 29 : Right and left in Lebanon
 * Chapter 30 : The Shi'a
 * Chapter 31 : Islamic revolution
 * Chapter 32 : The enemies of God
 * Chapter 33 : The roots of Muslim rage
 * Chapter 34 : The other Middle East problems
 * Chapter 35 : Did you say "American imperialism"? : power, weakness, and choices in the Middle East
 * Chapter 36 : The law of Islam
 * Chapter 37 : Not everybody hates Saddam
 * Chapter 38 : Mideast states : pawns no longer in imperial games
 * Chapter 39 : What Saddam wrought
 * Chapter 40 : The "sick man" of today coughs closer to home
 * Chapter 41 : Revisiting the paradox of modern Turkey
 * Chapter 42 : We must be clear
 * Chapter 43 : Deconstructing Osama and his evil appeal
 * Chapter 44 : Targeted by a history of hatred
 * Chapter 45 : A time for toppling
 * Chapter 46 : In defense of history
 * Chapter 47 : First-person narrative in the Middle East
 * Chapter 48 : Reflections on Islamic historiography
 * Chapter 49 : The Ottoman archives : a source for European history
 * Chapter 50 : History writing and national revival in Turkey
 * Chapter 51 : On occidentalism and orientalism