- What Went Wrong
"What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response" is a book by
Bernard Lewis released in January 2002. It was written shortly before the September 11 terrorist attack. The nucleus of this book appeared as an article published in "The Atlantic Monthly " in January2002 .The book's thesis is that throughout recent history, specifically beginning with the failure of the second Ottoman siege of Vienna in
1683 , theIslamic world has failed to modernize 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. The book also details other various shortcomings of modernization in the Islamic world, such as general resistance to constructing publicclocks , lack of standardized linear measurements, and pervasiveautocracy .External links
* [http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/01/lewis.htm The original article (Abstract plus first two paragraphs)]
* [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/MiddleEastern/?view=usa&ci=0195144201 Description] by theOxford University Press
* Ismail Küpeli: [http://www.grin.com/e-book/70017/was-ging-schief-beim-untergang-des-morgenlandes-eine-exemplarische-sichtung "Was ging schief beim 'Untergang des Morgenlandes'?"] "Eine exemplarische Sichtung der Geschichtsdarstellung von Bernard Lewis". München, 2007, ISBN 978-3638754576 (Critical book about "What Went Wrong" in German)
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