Longtime Princeton University professor Bernard Lewis, a expert on Middle East history, is being remembered for his scholarship and its effect on world events after dying Saturday.

Lewis died at age 101 after a lifetime popularizing his interpretations of Islamic history, and how it connected present conflicts to deeper legacies.

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