Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis, (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. Lewis's expertise was in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West.Lewis served as a soldier in the British Army in the Royal Armoured Corps and Intelligence Corps during the Second World War before being seconded to the Foreign Office. After the war, he returned to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and was appointed to the new chair in Near and Middle Eastern history.
In 2007, Lewis was called "the West's leading interpreter of the Middle East". Others have said Lewis's approach is essentialist and generalizing to the Muslim world, as well as his tendency to restate hypotheses that were challenged by more recent research. On a political level, Lewis's detractors say he revived the image of the cultural inferiority of Islam and of emphasizing the dangers of jihad. His advice was frequently sought by neoconservative policymakers, including the Bush administration. His active support of the Iraq War and neoconservative ideals have since come under scrutiny.
Lewis was notable for his public debates with Edward Said, who said Lewis was a Zionist apologist and an Orientalist who "demeaned" Arabs, misrepresented Islam, and promoted Western imperialism, to which Lewis responded by saying Orientalism was a facet of humanism and that Said was politicizing the subject.
Lewis was also known for denying the Armenian Genocide. His argument that there was no evidence of a deliberate genocide carried out against the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire is rejected by other historians. He said that the mass killings resulted from a mutual struggle between two nationalistic movements, a view that has been criticized as "ahistorical." Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1979London ; New York : issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs [by] Oxford U.P., 1979.530 p. : maps ; 21 cm. -
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Published 1993Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.viii, 240 p. : maps ; 20 cm. -
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Published 1968London, New York [etc.] issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs [by] Oxford U.P., 1968.xi, 530 p. maps. 21 cm. -
4Published 1970### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1970.2 v. illus., maps. 24 cm.Other Authors: “...Lewis, Bernard...”
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Published 1926London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, 1926.xv, 256 p. incl. front., illus., plates. 19 cm.Other Authors: “...Lewis, Bernard, 1870-1956...”
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Published 1926London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, 1926.1 online resource (xv, 256 p.) : incl. front., ill., plates.Other Authors: “...Lewis, Bernard, 1870-1956...”
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7Published 1977### CRL customization ### ?> ### Add publisher and desc details ### ?>Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1977, c1970.2 v.Other Authors: “...Lewis, Bernard, 1916-...”