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Bernard Lewis, FBA (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator . Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University .
May 21, 2018 · Bernard Lewis, an eminent historian of Islam who traced the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to a declining Islamic civilization, a controversial view that influenced world opinion and...
May 22, 2018 · Princeton University scholar Bernard Lewis, one of the world's foremost historians of Islam and the Middle East, died May 19. He was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus.
SUBSCRIBE. intellectual in the United States, earned him readers across the globe. After the 9/11 attacks, he became a celebrity: “Osama bin Laden made me famous,” he admitted. The two short books he published after the terror strikes became New York Times bestsellers.
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Jun 6, 2018 · Bernard Lewis was a loyal friend and a scholarly legend. The sadness at his passing only grows as one is forced to acknowledge that the age of academic giants has now definitively come to an end. The professional study of Middle East history now belongs to the heirs of Edward Said—to, that is, intellectual pygmies.
May 15, 2012 · Over his long academic career, Bernard Lewis has arguably become the world's greatest historian of the Middle East. Now, at 96, Lewis turns his attention inward in Notes on a Century, a...
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May 25, 2018 · Bernard Lewis, a towering but controversial historian of Islam and the Middle East, died this week aged 101. Opinion will divide about the legacy of a learned and charming man who shamed many...
