Bernard Lewis

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Bernard Lewis (Londen, 31 mei, 1916) is een Joods-Brits-Amerikaanse historicus.
Hij is emeritus hoogleraar van de geschiedenis van het Nabije Oosten op Princeton University. Zijn werken over de geschiedenis van het Ottomaanse Rijk worden beschouwd als de belangrijkste bijdragen aan dat vakgebied.

Lewis heeft verschillende goedgelezen boeken geschreven, zoals het standaardwerk 'Het Midden-Oosten, 2000 jaar culturele en politieke geschiedenis'.

[bewerk] Boeken

• The Origins of Ismailism (1940)
• The Arabs in History (1950)
• The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961)
• Istanbul and the Civilizations of the Ottoman Empire (1963)
• The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam (1967)
• The Cambridge History of Islam (2 vols. 1970, revised 4 vols. 1978, editor with Peter Malcolm Holt and Ann K.S. Lambton)
• Islam: From the Prophet Muhammad to the capture of Constantinople (1974, editor)
• Race and Color in Islam (1979)
• Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society (1982, editor with Benjamin Braude)
• The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982)
• The Jews of Islam (1984)
• Semites and Anti-Semites (1986)
• History — Remembered, Recovered, Invented (1987)
• Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople (1987)
• The Political Language of Islam (1988)
• Race and Slavery in the Middle East: an Historical Enquiry (1990)
• Islam and the West (1993)
• Islam in History (1993)
• The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (1994)
• Cultures in Conflict (1994)
• The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years (1995)
• The Future of the Middle East (1997)
• The Multiple Identities of the Middle East (1998)
• Uno Sguardo dal Medioriente, Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 1999
• A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History (2000)
• Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems (2001)
• The Muslim Discovery of Europe (2001)
• What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East (2002)
• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (2003)
• From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East (2004)