http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=110004050
Profile of Bernard Lewis (he’s 87!). This is mostly here for its mention of a compliment Lewis considers “amongst the finest he’s ever received.” It appears in the preface to a fundamentalist Muslim group’s Arabic translation of one of his works, and runs: “I don’t know who this man is. He is either a candid friend or an honest enemy, but in either case, one who refuses to deal in falsehoods.”
(Another nice compliment (of Richard Posner): “If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could.”)