Lewis’s war service shaped his lifelong focus on Arabic political terminology
Evidence
His war work in the Foreign Office led on to his next book, A Handbook of Diplomatic and Political Arabic (1947). Throughout his career he has maintained a constant, philological preoccupation with terminology, particularly the Arabic vocabulary of politics, diplomacy and warfare. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 464
Categorization
- XREF: Ties to Irwin’s larger claim about Orientalists’ entwining with state power and intelligence work.