Bernard Lewis

Department/Program(s):
Near Eastern Studies
Position: Emeritus Faculty
Title: Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus.
Email: blewis@princeton.edu

Some representative publications:

Islam: The Religion and the People, co-authored with Buntzie Ellis Churchill, Upper Saddle River, 2009
Political Words and Ideas in Islam, Princeton 2008
The Assassins, Folio Society edition, London, 2005
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East, New York, 2004
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, New York, 2003
What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, New York, 2002
The Emergence of Modern Turkey, 3rd edition, New York, 2001
Land of Enchanters: Egyptian Short Stories from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, revised edition, with
Stanley Burstein, Princeton, 2001
Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems, Princeton, 2001
A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History, New York, 2000
The Multiple Identities of the Middle East, London, 1998
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, New York, 1995
Cultures in Conflict, New York, 1994
The Shaping of the Modern Middle East, New York, 1994
The Arabs in History, 6th edition, New York, 1993
Islam and the West, New York, 1993
Islam in History, 2nd edition, Chicago, 1993
Race and Slavery in the Middle East: An Historical Enquiry, New York, 1990
The Political Language of Islam, Chicago, 1988
The Muslim Discovery of Europe, New York, 1982
The Origins of Ismailism, reprinted New York, 1975