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Bernard Lewis, FBA byl britsko-americký historik, orientalista a politický komentátor. Byl emeritním profesorem zaměřujícím se na blízkovýchodní studia na Princetonské univerzitě. Byl odborníkem na dějiny islámu, vztahy mezi islámem a Západem a dějiny Osmanské říše. Vystudoval fakultu orientálních a afrických studií na Londýnské univerzitě. Při druhé světové válce sloužil v britské armádě a po ní se vrátil na Londýnskou univerzitu, kde začal vyučovat dějiny Blízkého východu. Dnes je považován za jednoho z největších západních expertů na Blízký východ. Byl mimo jiné známý veřejnými debatami s Edwardem Saidem. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. květen 1916 – 19. květen 2018
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„Lidé ze Západu až na pár výjimek přestali považovat náboženství za svou nejdůležitějši starost, a proto nejsou ochotni připustit, že by pro někoho jiného mohlo stále tím nejdůležitějším být. Pro pokrokovou moderní mysl je jednoduše nepřípustné, aby lidé bojovali a umírali kvůli pouhé odlišnosti náboženství.“

Bernard Lewis

1977
Zdroj: [Albrightová, Madeleine, 2006, Mocní a všemohoucí, Práh, 1, 56, 80-7252-151-9]

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Bernard Lewis: Citáty anglicky

“Islam is one of the world's great religions. Let me be explicit about what I, as a historian of Islam who is not a Muslim, mean by that. Islam has brought comfort and peace of mind to countless millions of men and women. It has given dignity and meaning to drab and impoverished lives. It has taught people of different races to live in brotherhood and people of different creeds to live side by side in reasonable tolerance. It inspired a great civilization in which others besides Muslims lived creative and useful lives and which, by its achievement, enriched the whole world. But Islam, like other religions, has also known periods when it inspired in some of its followers a mood of hatred and violence. It is our misfortune that part, though by no means all or even most, of the Muslim world is now going through such a period, and that much, though again not all, of that hatred is directed against us.”

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Books, The Roots of Muslim Rage (1990)

“I think that the way that Ahmadinejad is talking now shows quite clearly his contempt for the Western world in general and the United States in particular. They feel they are dealing with, as Osama bin Laden put it, an effete, degenerate, pampered enemy incapable of real resistance. And they are proceeding on that assumption. Remember that they have no understanding or experience of the free debate of an open society. Where we see free debate and criticism, they see fear, weakness and division; they proceed accordingly, and every day brings new evidence of that from Iran.”

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Books, Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis (2006)

“On 8 June 632, according to the tradional biography, the Prophet died after a short illness. He had achieved a great deal. To the pagan peoples of western Arabia he had brought a new religion which, with its monotheism and its ethical doctrines, stood on an incomparably higher level than the paganism it replaced. He had provided that religion with a revelation which was to become in the centuries to follow the guide to thought and count of countless millions of Believers. But he had done more than that; he had established a community and a well organized and armed state, the power and prestige of which made it a dominant factor in Arabia. What then is the final significance of the career of the Arabian Prophet? For the traditional Muslims the question scarcely arises. Muhammad was the last and greatest of the Apostles of God, sent as the Seal of Prophecy to bring the final revelation of god's word to mankind. His career and success were fore-ordained and inevitable and needed no the pious fantasy of later generations of believers clothed the dim figure of the Prophet with a rich and multi-coloured fabric of fable, legend, and miracle, not realizing that by diminishing his essential historic humanity they were robbing him of one of his most attractive qualities.”

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Zdroj: Books, The Arabs in History (1950), p. 45-46

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