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