Bernard Lewis? Are you kidding?
Bernard Lewis
In 2007, Lewis was called "the West's leading interpreter of the Middle East".
[3]...
In 1966, Lewis was a founding member of the
learned society,
Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), but in 2007 he broke away and founded
Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) to challenge MESA, which the
New York Sun noted as "dominated by academics who have been critical of Israel and of America's role in the Middle East".
[27] The organization was formed as an academic society dedicated to promoting high standards of research and teaching in Middle Eastern and African studies and other related fields, with Lewis as Chairman of its academic council.
[28]...
In 1990, the
National Endowment for the Humanities selected Lewis for the
Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the
humanities. His lecture, entitled "Western Civilization: A View from the East", was revised and reprinted in
The Atlantic Monthly under the title "The Roots of Muslim Rage."
[29][30] His 2007
Irving Kristol Lecture, given to the
American Enterprise Institute, was published as
Europe and Islam.
[31]...
Lewis's influence extends beyond academia to the general public. He began his research career with the study of
medieval Arab, especially Syrian, history.
[14] His first article, dedicated to professional
guilds of medieval Islam, had been widely regarded as the most authoritative work on the subject for about thirty years....
Lewis argued that the Middle East is currently backward and its decline was a largely self-inflicted condition resulting from both culture and religion, as opposed to the post-colonialist view which posits the problems of the region as economic and political maldevelopment mainly due to the 19th-century European colonization.
[33] In his 1982 work
Muslim Discovery of Europe, Lewis argues that Muslim societies could not keep pace with the West and that "Crusader successes were due in no small part to Muslim weakness."
[34] Further, he suggested that as early as the 11th century Islamic societies were decaying, primarily the byproduct of internal problems like "cultural arrogance," which was a barrier to creative borrowing, rather than external pressures like the
Crusades.
[14]...
Abraham Udovitch described him as "certainly the most eminent and respected historian of the Arab world, of the Islamic world, of the Middle East and beyond".
[37]
In the wake of Soviet and Arab attempts to delegitimize Israel as a racist country, Lewis wrote a study of
anti-Semitism,
Semites and Anti-Semites (1986).
[14] In other works he argued Arab rage against Israel was disproportionate to other tragedies or injustices in the Muslim world, such as the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and control of Muslim-majority land in Central Asia, the bloody and destructive fighting during the
Hama uprising in Syria (1982), the
Algerian Civil War (1992–1998), and the
Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988).
[35]....
In 1998, Lewis read in a London-based newspaper
Al-Quds Al-Arabi a declaration of war on the United States by
Osama bin Laden. In his essay "A License to Kill", Lewis indicated he considered bin Laden's language as the "ideology of
jihad" and warned that bin Laden would be a danger to the West.
[66] The essay was published after the
Clinton administration and the
US intelligence community had begun its hunt for bin Laden in
Sudan and then in
Afghanistan.
Bernard Lewis - Wikipedia
Bernard Lewis sounds like a great guy.
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