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The Multiple Identities of the Middle East by Bernard Lewis; A Middle East Mosaic edited by Bernard Lewis
- Abstract
For over 50 years, Bernard Lewis, the Cleveland E. Dodge professor emeritus of Near Eastern studies at Princeton, has been illuminating audiences around the world on the culture and history of Islam and the region that gave birth to it, known since the la
About the Author
Efraim Karsh is head of Mediterranean Studies at King’s College, University of London, and the author most recently of Islamic Imperialism: A History (Yale). Mr. Karsh gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Roger and Susan Hertog in supporting the research on which the present article is based.




