Lewis previously taught Persian at Emory University, in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. His dissertation on the life and works of the 12th-century mystical poet Sana'i, and the establishment of the ghazal genre in Persian literature, won the Foundation of Iranian Studies best dissertation prize in 1995. Berkeley and completed his graduate work in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Lewis died after a long illness on September 19, 2022.
He taught classes on Persian language and literature, medieval Islamic thought, Sufism, Baha'i Studies, translation studies, and Iranian cinema. Lewis (1961 - 2022) was an Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago with affiliations to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. ( May 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įranklin D. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations.
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