Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis was Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Formerly Professor of Middle Eastern History at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London, 1949-74.
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Notes on a Century
The memoirs of the greatest historian of the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis. After 9/11, people who had never given much thought to the politics…
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The Middle East
A brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subject In this immensely…
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The Assassins
The history of an extremist Islamic sect in the 11th-12th centuries whose terrorist methods gave the English language a new word: assassin. The word 'Assassin'…
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From Babel to Dragomans
A collection of the most important essays on past and current history by the Western world's foremost Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis has charted the great…