Reading for Friday

Image via WikipediaHere is the link to the assignment for Friday. I decided to go with a secondary source- a 1990 article by a well-known, if controversial, Western scholar of Islam, Bernard Lewis. Click here for the article.

Your assignment is to read the document and critically examine its argument. In particular you should answer the following questions:

1. What is Lewis' thesis or theses? What claims does he make to explain Muslim anger at the west as it existed in 1990?

2. Do you think Lewis' argument stands up in the face of events over the past two decades? Why or why not?

To answer these questions you should either print and annotate the article, or read it online and copy to another document significant quotations, along with your analysis of them (annotations). Print these and bring them to class.