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TÜBA Honorary Member Prof. Bernard Lewis Passed Away
20 MAY 2018

TÜBA Honorary Member Prof. Bernard Lewis Passed Away

One of the world’s most famous historians, TÜBA Honorary Member Professor Bernard Lewis passed away on May 20, 2018.

Prof. Lewis was 101 when he died. There is no official explanation for Prof. Lewis’s cause of death and the funeral.

We wish Prof. Lewis to have mercy from God, and patience to his family and friends.

Who is Prof. Bernard Lewis?
Bernard Lewis, was a British American historian specializing 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' expertise was in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West. He was also noted in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire.

Lewis is the author of forty-six books on Islam and the Middle East, including his most recent publications, Notes on a Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historian; The End of Modern History in the Middle East; and The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror. He also wrote three major syntheses for general audiences: The Arabs in History (1950); The Middle East and the West (1964); and The Middle East (1995). These books have been translated into more than twenty languages and have made Lewis' name synonymous with Islamic history for educational publics in the West.