Bernard Lewis ( born Bernard Lewis ; May 31, 1916 , London - May 19, 2018 , Voorhees, New Jersey [7] ) - British and American historian , orientalist . He specialized in the history of Islam , the relationship between Islam and the West, and is also known as the author of works on the history of the Ottoman Empire . Emerit Professor at Princeton University.
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| Scientific field | story |
| Place of work | University of London, Princeton University, Cornell University |
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| Academic degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) |
| Academic rank | Professor |
| supervisor | Louis Massignon |
| Awards and prizes | United States National Humanitarian Medal ( 2006 ) Harvey Award ( 1978 ) [d] ( 1990 ) [d] ( 2007 ) [d] [d] [d] [d] |
He was an expert in the Middle East [8] . He has repeatedly advised prominent politicians, including the George W. Bush administration. [9] Martin Kramer , author of Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, believes that in his 60-year career, Lewis has become "the most influential post-war historian of Islam and the Middle East." [10]
He is also known for his controversial point of view on the Armenian Genocide [11] [12] [13] .
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Biography
Born in Stoke Newngton . He grew up in a Jewish family, interest in languages and history originated with him in preparation for the bar mitzvah [14] .
In 1936 he graduated from the School of Oriental Studies (now the School of Oriental and African Studies (SHIVA)) at the University of London , and three years later received a Ph.D. His main specialization was the history of Islam [15] . He studied law and even wanted to become a lawyer, but returned to the history of the Middle East. He also studied at the graduate school of the University of Paris under Louis Massignon and in 1937 received the Diplôme des Études Sémitiques [10] . In 1938 he returned to alma mater as a teacher of the history of Islam.
Since 1940 he served in the British Army in the Royal Armored Corps, and in 1941 he was seconded to the Foreign Office. After the war, he returned to SHIVA and in 1949 was appointed to the new Department of History of the Near and Middle East [16] . Among the students is Yaakov Landau .
In 1974-1986 he worked at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Studies (New Jersey, USA), he taught only one semester per year and was relieved of administrative duties, so he could devote more time to research. It was at Princeton that the most fruitful period of his scientific career began, during which he published many books and articles based on previously accumulated materials [17] . After leaving there, until 1990 he worked at Cornell University [10] .
In 1966, one of the founders of the Middle East North America Association (MESA), which left in 2007 and founded the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA). The organization was created as an academic society, aimed at promoting high standards of research and teaching in Eastern and African studies [18] .
In 1982, received US citizenship.
In 1990, the National Humanitarian Fund awarded him the highest award of the US government for achievements in the field of humanities.
In 1947-1974 he was married to Ruth Helen Oppenheim, has a daughter and son [10] .
He died on May 19, 2018 in a nursing home in Voorhees, New Jersey. [7]
Bibliography
- Bernard Lewis What's wrong? The Way of the West and the Middle East: Progress and Traditionalism = What Went Wrong ?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East .. - M .: Olymp-Business , 2003. - 224 p. - ISBN 5-901028-56-2 .
Rewards
- Order of Merit ( Turkey , January 14, 1998 )
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118897225 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bernard-lewis-eminent-historian-of-the-middle-east-dies-at-101/2018/05/19/4f0db6b8-5bad- 11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html
- ↑ Babelio
- ↑ http://www.infoplease.com/spot/topintellectuals.html
- ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/handheld/articles/2007/01/26/1169788692892.html
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3650506/The-Orientalists-and-their-enemies.html
- ↑ 1 2 WP: historian Bernard Lewis (Russian) , TASS died in the USA Date of treatment May 20, 2018.
- ↑ James L. Abrahmson, "Will the West - and the United States - Go the Distance?" , American Diplomacy , June 8, 2007. Retrieved March 6, 2008.
- ↑ AEI's Weird Celebration , Slate (March 14, 2007). Date of treatment February 29, 2008.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Kramer, Martin (1999), "Bernard Lewis" , Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing , vol. Vol. 1, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, pp. 719–720 , < http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.martinkramer.org%2Fsandbox%2Freader%2Farchives%2Fbernard-lewis%2F&date=2010-11-13 >
- ↑ The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide , Yair Auron , 2003, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0-7658-0834-X , p. 235
- ↑ La province de la mort, p. 9, Leslie A. Davis, Yves Ternon, 1994
- ↑ Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, Robert Melson , University of Chicago Press, 1992, ISBN 0-226-51990-2 , p. 289
- ↑ Lewis, Bernard. From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting The Middle East . - Oxford University press, 2004. - P. 1–2. - ISBN 0-19-517336-8 .
- ↑ “Bernard Lewis Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus” Archived December 16, 2008 at Wayback Machine , Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Princeton, retrieved May 26, 2006.
- ↑ Lewis (2004), pp. 3-4
- ↑ Lewis (2004), pp. 6-7
- ↑ ASMEA homepage
Links
- Bernard Lewis and Norman Podhoretz discuss the Middle East on YouTube starting at 29:00 (Bernard Lewis and Norman Podgorets talk about the Middle East, hosted by Peter Robinson)