Bernard Lewis coined the phrase ‘clash of civilizations’, which Huntington popularized

Evidence

One particularly controversial article, ‘The Roots of Muslim Rage’, was published in Atlantic Monthly (September 1990) and it was in this article that the phrase ‘the clash of civilizations’ was first used – a phrase that was later picked up by Samuel Huntington and used as the title of a controversial book. Although most right-thinking liberals and believers in multiculturalism would reject the notion of a clash, it is clear that some Muslims believe in exactly that and it is a clash that they hope to win. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 470

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to any reading of Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations; corrects the common misattribution. — connects to: Lewis and Huntington originated the thesis that Islam never separated religion from politics — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 326; Post-Cold War conflict was framed by Huntington as civilizational cultural clash
• SHARE: Worth sending to anyone who discusses Huntington — the coining actually belongs to Bernard Lewis, 1990.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists…, 470

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• Lewis framed Muslim rage as a civilizational reaction, not a policy dispute. (similarity 0.88)
• Huntington popularized a clash-of-civilizations thesis built on Lewis’s earlier Orientalist work. (similarity 0.87)
• The clash-of-civilizations thesis converted political conflict into cultural racialization (similarity 0.87)
• The clash of civilizations theory rearticulated the Orientalist binary of Islam versus the West. (similarity 0.84)
• Post-Cold War conflict was framed by Huntington as civilizational cultural clash (similarity 0.83)
• Lewis and Huntington argued Islam itself, not fundamentalism, underlies the West’s problem (similarity 0.83)
• Bernard Lewis supplied the clash of civilizations thesis to American foreign policy (similarity 0.83)
• Islam-West conflict is a civilizational clash beyond policy or issues (similarity 0.82)
• The clash of civilizations thesis asserts Western values are alien to Islamic societies. (similarity 0.82)
• Lewis and Huntington originated the thesis that Islam never separated religion from politics (similarity 0.82)
• Clash of civilizations rhetoric about Islam predates Huntington by seventy years (similarity 0.81)
• Huntington repackaged Orientalist binaries into a new lexicon of civilizational clash. (similarity 0.81)
• Huntington attributes complex world conflicts to unchanging civilizational essences (similarity 0.81)
• Bernard Lewis reduced fourteen centuries of East-West to unchanging conflict. (similarity 0.81)
• Culture served as a racializing mode that displaced politics onto religion (similarity 0.81)