Faith, identity, tradition and space in the Islamic world according to Bernard Lewis

VII. from the century, Islam began to spread in the Arab geography, and Christianity and Islam have remained in interaction since this period. Since its foundation, the Ottoman Empire did not see the Christian world as worth researching, so it had almost no information about Europe. When the Islamic civilization began to decline, they realized the need to take the West into account. They examined their practices and made innovations to prevent regression. While doing this, they were unknowingly under Western influence. The subject of this study is to examine the perspective of Bernard Lewis, one of the noteworthy researchers in the field of Islamic history, to the Islamic world, and this study aims to better interpret his historiography. Our research was carried out by examining all of Lewis's works translated into Turkish and synthesizing these studies by adhering to the titles of belief, identity, tradition and place. It has been examined from a new perspective, with contributions from other studies on Lewis. Since we mostly come across summaries and explanations of Lewis's books in the contents of previously prepared theses, in our study in terms of content; In the light of his works, his thoughts are included under subheadings by touching on the Islamic civilization, Western culture and the differences of these two civilizations, their experiences of living together, their social lives, and the Western influence in the Islamic society. Bernard Lewis is a personality that needs to be studied more.