Historian Bernard Lewis passed away on Saturday at 101, his lifelong partner Buntzie Churchill confirmed, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. Lewis, “a preeminent scholar of Middle Eastern history whose work profoundly shaped Western views of the region,” is credited with having used the term “clash of civilizations” in his 1990 essay, the Roots of Muslim Rage. Samuel Huntington went on to popularize the concept in his book of the same name.