Henry Kissinger offers in
a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades—Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.
There has never been a true “world order,” Kissinger observes. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the Emperor at its pinnacle. In Europe, Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians; when Rome fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. Islam, in its early centuries, considered itself the world’s sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. The United States was born of a conviction about the universal applicability of democracy—a conviction that has guided its policies ever since.
Now international affairs take place on a global basis, and these historical concepts of world order are meeting. Every region participates in questions of high policy in every other, often instantaneously. Yet there is no consensus among the major actors about the rules and limits guiding this process, or its ultimate destination. The result is mounting tension.
Grounded in Kissinger’s deep study of history and his experience as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State,
guides readers through crucial episodes in recent world history. Kissinger offers a unique glimpse into the inner deliberations of the Nixon administration’s negotiations with Hanoi over the end of the Vietnam War, as well as Ronald Reagan’s tense debates with Soviet Premier Gorbachev in Reykjavík. He offers compelling insights into the future of U.S.–China relations and the evolution of the European Union, and examines lessons of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taking readers from his analysis of nuclear negotiations with Iran through the West’s response to the Arab Spring and tensions with Russia over Ukraine,
anchors Kissinger’s historical analysis in the decisive events of our time.
Provocative and articulate, blending historical insight with geopolitical prognostication,
is a unique work that could come only from a lifelong policymaker and diplomat.

愛德華．薩伊德是一位卓越優異、獨具一格的集大成人物，兼具學者、美學家與政治活動者的身份……他在每一個領域中挑戰並刺激我們的思考。──華盛頓郵報〈書的世界〉（Washington Post Book Review）
每一位新聞媒體的國外特派員與國際新聞編輯，都應該讀一讀《遮蔽的伊斯蘭》……這是一本扛鼎之作。──法蘭西斯．費茲傑羅─《湖中之火》一書作者

知识与权力、报道与掩饰、诠释与共谋
萨义德“东方学三部曲”压轴之作
台湾“中研院”欧美研究所副所长、著名专家单德兴教授 专文推荐
从伊朗人质事件、波斯湾战争，到纽约世贸中心大楼爆炸案，西方世界一直被一个名叫“伊斯兰”的幽魂苦苦纠缠。在新闻媒体的描述，以及政府、学界与企业专家的应和下，“伊斯兰”竟沦为恐怖主义与宗教狂热的同义词。而与此同时，一些国家也利用“伊斯兰”一词，来为其丧失民心的高压政权张目。
在这部里程碑式的作品中，爱德华·萨义德针对伊斯兰被西方媒体塑造出的僵固形象，检视了其渊源和影响。他结合政治评议与文化批评来揭示出，即便是对伊斯兰世界最“客观”的报道，其中也潜藏着隐而不显的假设和对事实的扭曲。

《古兰经》的研究已跨出了伊斯兰世界，而为许多发达国家文化界所得视。他们如此热衷于研究这部经典，无疑是注意到伊斯兰世界在国际政治，经济，军事等方面举足轻重的力量。另一方面，分布在七十多个国家里（指土生土长）的穆斯林，他们的思想意识，生活方式，精神面貌不能不引起全世界人们的关注。因此，伊斯兰，进而伊斯兰的经典《古兰经》，成为西方学术界和高等院校的重要课目之一。正如英国学者兰敦所说：“西方文化中的哲学，数

没有哪个主要宗教曾像伊斯兰教那样，在西方世界中遭受如此扭曲。将伊斯兰视为一种宗教，以及一个世界主要文明的“主导思想”和支配原则，在今天意义是格外重大的。不仅因为它彰显了超过十二三亿穆斯林人口的生活之道，更因为伊斯兰及其文明在欧美文明的起源和发展过程中，其实扮演了比一般认为的更为重要的角色。而且伊斯兰教是亚伯拉罕一神教体系的重要分支，如不对其进行研究，那么犹太教和基督教所属宗教体系的整体知识将会有所欠缺。本书作者为现代伊斯兰思想大家，他以深入浅出的文字勾勒了一千多年伊斯兰文明的全貌。

恐怖主义为何主要在大中东猖獗？
突尼斯小贩自焚何以点燃北非局势的燎原之火？
巴勒斯坦、黎巴嫩、苏丹、索马里、埃及、利比亚、也门、叙利亚等纷乱不断的前因后果？
大中东有怎样的历史和文明？
伊斯兰世界的现状和前景何在？
……
寻路大中东，
从历史解读硝烟，用脚步探讨文明。
本书由作者逐一游历大中东各国的经历，追述大中东各国的历史与文化，并以人类历史的纵深和国际政治的视野，探究中东、北非、高加索等地区硝烟不息的历史缘由和现实原因，汇聚作者对人类不同文明之间横向交流与纵向演变的观察和体会。
伊斯兰教、基督教、犹太教之间的碰撞与消长，罗马、波斯、拜占庭、阿拉伯、蒙古、奥斯曼等帝国的冲突与兴替，英、法、意、俄（苏）、美等强国百余年来在大中东的掠夺和影响，以及大中东各国谋求独立、发展的抗争与曲折——作者将在大中东31国的经历、见闻和思索，连缀起来，拼接出一幅波澜壮阔的大中东文明图景。

世人以許多不同方式看待伊斯蘭。伊斯蘭不只是具有吸引力的神秘詩賦，高妙的對稱的建築物，祕傳的素菲神秘主義思想；伊斯蘭也是走在街頭的群眾，青年攻擊大使館，電視螢幕上自我鞭笞的意象。它不只是神學；它也是辯教（polemics）、爭論、媒體意象、衝突、一種觀點。
本書出自英國廣播公司（BBC）的系列節目。目的是要協助瞭解遙遠且未知的神秘國度。在這個因為對於其他民族無知而越來越充滿仇恨的世界裡，這是迫切需要的。本書將檢討穆斯林的社會與習俗、態度，書中精神是在強調，觀察其他民族不是在觀察異國的、奇異的、怪誕的事物，而是在觀察不同的事物。重點不是在降低差異，而是在解釋差異。

The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in America and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation was first published in 1969. This new edition of the abridged version, with the addition of a key section of Rosenthal's own introduction to the three-volume edition, and with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence, will reintroduce this seminal work to twenty-first-century students and scholars of Islam and of medieval and ancient history.