Franklin Lewis

|birth_place=Lexington, Virginia |father=Robert Lewis |mother=Anne White Lewis |spouse=Foruzan Lewis |death_date= |death_place=Chicago, Illinois |notable_works=Rumi: Past and Present, East and West, The Life Teachings of Jalāl al-Din Rumi (2008) |alma_mater=University of California, Berkeley (BA, 1983)
University of Chicago (PhD, 1995) |thesis_title=Reading, Writing, and Recitation: Sanā’i and The Origins of the Persian Ghazal |thesis_url=https://archive.org/details/ReadingWritingAndRecitationSanaiAndTheOriginsOfThePersianGhazal/ |workplaces=Emory University
University of Chicago |organization=American Institute of Iranian Studies }} Franklin D. Lewis (1961 - 2022) was an Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago with affiliations to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. He taught classes on Persian language and literature, medieval Islamic thought, Sufism, Baha'i Studies, translation studies, and Iranian cinema.

Lewis died after a long illness on September 19, 2022. Provided by Wikipedia