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Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
Lewis wrote several influential books accessible to the general public.
What where the books titles?
The Arabs in History (1950), The Middle East and the West (1964), and The Middle East (1995).
How were these book do?
In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the interest in Lewis's work surged.

Question: Did any thing influence him?
Self-contained rewrite: Did any thing influence Bernard Lewis?