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1Name:  Dr. Bernard Lewis
 Institution:  Princeton University
 Year Elected:  1973
 Class:  4. Humanities
 Subdivision:  405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century
 Residency:  Resident
 Living? :   Deceased
 Birth Date:  1916
 Death Date:  May 19, 2018
   
 
Bernard Lewis received the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences in 1990 "in recognition of his pioneering work in Ottoman-modern Turkish studies, on Race and Colour, and on Muslim views of Europe; of his fundamental role in refining and promoting the writing of Islamic History; and of his contribution in explaining the Middle East to generations of students and to large audiences in the West." Dr. Lewis received a B.A. in 1936 and a Ph.D. in 1939 from the University of London and was Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London from 1949 to 1974. In 1974 he moved to Princeton University as the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies with a concurrent membership at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 1986 he became the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus and began a four-year tenure as the Director of the Annenberg Research Institute in Philadelphia. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973 and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bush in 2006. An eminent scholar, Dr. Lewis was a prolific author, illuminating the Middle East with clarity and erudition. His impressive list of publications includes The Origins of Ismailism (1940); Handbook of Diplomatic and Political Arabic (1947); Land of Enchanters (1948, 2001); The Arabs in History (1950, 7th edition 1993); The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961, 1968); Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (1963); The Assassins (1968); Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople (2 vols., 1974); History--Remembered, Recovered, Invented (1975); The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982); The Jews of Islam (1984); Semites and anti-Semites (1986, 1997, 1999); The Political Language of Islam (1988); Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry (1990); Islam and the West (1993); The Shaping of the Modern Middle East (1993); Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery (1995); The Middle East: Two Thousand Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day (1995); The Multiple Identities of the Middle East (1998); A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of life, letters and history (2000); Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems (2001); What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002); The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror(2003); From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East (2004); Political Words and Ideas in Islam (2008); and Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East (2010). He has co-edited The Cambridge History of Islam (1970) and The Encylopedia of Islam (2nd edition, vols. I-VI). Dr. Lewis's many honors and awards include the Ataturk Peace Prize (1998), the Irving Kristol Award (2007) and fifteen honorary doctorates. He was a fellow of the British Academy (1963), a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1983), and a corresponding member of the Institut de France, Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1994). He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1973. Bernard Lewis died May 19, 2018, at the age of 101 in New Jersey.
 
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