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Bernard Lewis

1916 - 2018

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Lewis is the 70th most popular historian, the 771st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 660th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Historian.

Bernard Lewis is a historian of the Middle East and Islam. He is most famous for his book "The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror."

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Among historians, Bernard Lewis ranks 70 out of 561. Before him are Jared Diamond, Libanius, Movses Khorenatsi, Callisthenes, Benzion Netanyahu, and Theopompus. After him are Theophylact Simocatta, Geoffrey of Villehardouin, Ephorus, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Henri Pirenne, and Al-Dhahabi.

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Among people born in 1916, Bernard Lewis ranks 38. Before him are Paul Keres, Vitaly Ginzburg, Ruth Handler, Natalia Ginzburg, Abdul Rahman Arif, and Robert F. Furchgott. After him are Emil Gilels, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Masaki Kobayashi, Virginia Satir, Marcel Cerdan, and Peter Weiss. Among people deceased in 2018, Bernard Lewis ranks 49. Before him are Burt Reynolds, Sondra Locke, Arto Paasilinna, V. S. Naipaul, Leon M. Lederman, and Charles K. Kao. After him are Paul Allen, Jamal Khashoggi, Jin Yong, Gudrun Burwitz, Robert Venturi, and R. Lee Ermey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bernard Lewis ranks 771 out of 8,785. Before him are Æthelfrith (600), Gordon Brown (1951), Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872), Bill Nighy (1949), Benjamin Graham (1894), and Gerard Butler (1969). After him are Reginald Innes Pocock (1863), John Barry (1933), Raymond Cattell (1905), William Jackson Hooker (1785), James II of Scotland (1430), and Amy Winehouse (1983).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Bernard Lewis ranks 5. Before him are Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), Bede (672), and Edward Gibbon (1737). After him are Kenneth Clark (1903), Frances Yates (1899), Arnold Toynbee (1852), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), and Norman Davies (1939).

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