''What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East '' is a book by

Bernard Lewis Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British-American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near ...

released in January 2002, shortly after the September 11 terrorist attack, but written shortly before. The nucleus of this book appeared as an article published in ''

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'' in January 2002. The book's thesis is that throughout recent history, specifically beginning with the failure of the second Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683, the

Islamic world The terms Islamic world and Muslim world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere to the religious beliefs, politics, and laws of Islam or to societies in which Islam is ...

has failed to

modernize Modernization theory or modernisation theory holds that as societies become more economically modernized, wealthier and more educated, their political institutions become increasingly liberal democratic and rationalist. The "classical" theories ...

or to keep pace with the Western world in a variety of respects, and that this failure has been seen by many within the Islamic world as having allowed Western powers to acquire a disastrous position of dominance over those regions.

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What Is Wrong with ''What Went Wrong?''
by Adam Sabra, associate professor of Middle East history at the University of Georgia
Book review
by M. Shahid Alam, professor of economics at Northeastern University (A more complete version of this essay, with footnotes and references, has appeared in ''Studies in Contemporary Islam'' 4 (2002), 1:51-78) * Ismail Küpeli
''Was ging schief beim 'Untergang des Morgenlandes'?''
''Eine exemplarische Sichtung der Geschichtsdarstellung von Bernard Lewis''. München, 2007, (Critical book about "What Went Wrong" in German)
''Booknotes'' interview with Lewis on ''What Went Wrong?'', December 30, 2001.
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