E. R. J. Owen – known to his family, friends and colleagues as Roger – died on 23 December 2018 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of eighty-three. Over the course of a long and distinguished career Roger produced pioneering scholarly work of lasting importance on many different dimensions of the economic, political and social history of the modern Middle East, a field in whose intellectual advancement he played a key role over the past half-century. A great many younger academics (myself among them) were inspired by his scholarship’s analytical breadth and depth, its critical edge and its suspicion of received wisdom, lazy thinking and easy answers. But we also benefited personally from Roger’s generosity and support, and eventually came to enjoy his warm friendship. Roger Owen’s death is of course a grievous loss for his family, friends and colleagues, but it is also a loss for the many scholarly fields to which he contributed so much and to all of those who work in them.

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罗杰·欧文（1935–2018）

ERJ Owen（他的家人，朋友和同事叫Roger）于2018年12月23日在马萨诸塞州剑桥市的家中去世，享年83岁。在漫长而杰出的职业生涯中，罗杰（Roger）在现代中东的经济，政治和社会历史的许多不同方面产生了具有持久重要性的开创性学术研究，在过去的一半时间里，他在这一领域发挥了重要作用-世纪。许多年轻的学者（其中包括我本人）受到他奖学金的分析广度和深度，批评的边缘以及对所接受的智慧，懒惰的思想和简单答案的怀疑的启发。但是我们也从罗杰的慷慨和支持中个人受益，并最终享受了他的热情友谊。罗杰·欧文（Roger Owen）的死对他的家人当然是沉重的损失，