Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, passed away Saturday, May 19, in Voorhees Township, NJ, at the age of 101. Lewis, who came to Princeton in 1974 with a joint appointment as Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Long-term Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, was born in London in 1916. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history from the University of London in 1936 and, following a year at the University of Paris, his Ph.D. also from the University of London in 1939. Appointed an Assistant Lecturer in Islamic History at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1938 and Lecturer in 1940, Lewis then served in the British Army and British Intelligence during the war years. Returning to SOAS following the war, he was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1946 and Reader in 1947. In 1949 he was named Professor of the History of the Near and Middle East, a position he held until his departure to the United States in 1974. Following his retirement from Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study in 1986, Lewis became Director of the newly founded Annenberg Research Institute, a position he held for four years. During his second retirement, Lewis remained active, publishing sixteen books and over sixty articles and also assuming an increasingly influential role as a public intellectual and advisor to politicians and the U.S. government.

Lewis was the recipient of numerous honors, including The Harvey Prize, the Atatürk Peace Prize, the George Polk Award, the Golden Plate Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Irving Kristol Award, as well as fifteen honorary doctorates. He was named the Tanner Lecturer (Oxford University) and the Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities (NEH), and he gave the Henry M. Jackson Memorial Lecture in 1992.

Lewis published his first book, The Origins of Ismailism, in 1940, and his last book, Notes on a Century in 2012. In between, he wrote or edited forty-eight additional works. These include The Arabs in History (1950, 6^th edition 1993), The Emergence of Modern Turkey (1961, 3^rd edition 2001), Istanbul and the Civilization of the Ottoman Empire (1963), The Middle East and the West (1964, revised and recast edition published as Shaping of the Modern Middle East, 1993), The Assassins (1967), Race and Color in Islam (1971, revised and expanded edition published as Race and Slavery in the Middle East, 1990), Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople (1974), The Muslim Discovery of Europe (1982), The Jews of Islam (1984), The Political Language of Islam (1988), 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), 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), and Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East (2010).

His edited works include Historians of the Middle East (1962), The Cambridge History of Islam (1970), The World of Islam (US title; Islam and the Arab World, 1976), and Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire (1982). He also served on the editorial committee of the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2^nd edition, for thirty-one years.

Lewis is survived by his longtime partner Buntzie Churchill, a son Michael, a daughter Melanie Dunn, seven grandchildren, and three great-grandsons.