tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post9140312084438660266..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Iraqi-Jewish historian foresaw disastrous Middle East politicsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-57537262833622002092020-05-01T07:16:53.971+01:002020-05-01T07:16:53.971+01:00I agree with you that the Lewis school of MENA stu...I agree with you that the Lewis school of MENA studies still has its advocates and Kedourie belongs there - but while you still hear of Lewis's works you do not hear much about Kedourie. I doubt whether his books are on students' reading lists today.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-36122423405925143882020-04-29T21:52:27.734+01:002020-04-29T21:52:27.734+01:00" Elie Kedourie is one of the most under-rate..." Elie Kedourie is one of the most under-rated of historians"<br /><br />I would not say that at all. Kedourie is and has been highly respected. Martin Kramer, for instance, now at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, has always been full of praise for Kedourie and nostalgically remembers showing him around when he came to Israel. <br />But I would say that another Iraqi-born historian of a similar name to Kedourie has been overrated and overly honored. That is Majid Khadduri, an Arab nationalist who was partial to Haj Amin el-Husseini, knowing him personally, yet held a prestigious post in an American university, I think it was Johns Hopkins. Nevertheless, his books contain important information but when it came to Husseini, for instance, he covered up the worst parts of Husseini's Nazi collaboration and collaboration in the Shoah.<br />Kramer, I believe, would proudly admit to following in Kedourie's footsteps and I myself would claim --modestly or immodestly-- to have tried to do the same in my historical articles.<br />Kedourie and his school, such as Kramer, and their works, are a bastion against the gilded, dishonest mediocrity all too prevalent in modern Middle Eastern studies. Kramer was also a follower and personal friend of Bernard Lewis z'l. Among the more honest historians of the modern Middle East, Kedourie and Lewis were giants.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-33938365971196588472020-04-28T22:10:54.345+01:002020-04-28T22:10:54.345+01:00Elie Kadouri and V.S. Naipul:
...Elie Kadouri and V.S. Naipul:<br /> Both understood from the depths of their souls & in their own ways,that Islam and the deeply ingrained behavioral patterns of Muslims {NOT JUST ARABS} were a "heart of darkness" that could not be blamed on 'European Imperialism', Zionist entities or Infidel faiths. And they both understood the self destructive role played by the 'progressive' left combined with the addiction to cheap petroleum, that would do more to retard the inhabitants of the Muslim Orient, than benefit them. The most fundamental questions that must now be asked about the Muslim Orient & it's people of ALL ethnicities, languages, cultures & races: Has Islam left them permanently dysfunctional, and largely incapable of the most basic capabilities for reasonably stable governance ? i.e. Is there grounds for any optimism at all, for the future of the Muslim Orient ? Including their burdensome & dysfunctional diasporas in Europe, the Americas & Australia. Both gifted men paid a price for being right all along, when their corrupt, over-rated peers became intoxicated with the judgment of fools. Please GOOGLE: {1} Norman L. Roth {2}Norman L. Roth, JEWISH ISSUES WATCHDOGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com