Robert Irwin, "For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies"
Robert Irwin, "For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies"
Publisher: Penguin | 2007 | ISBN: 0140289232 | English | EPUB | 420 pages | 1.7 Mb
Publisher: Penguin | 2007 | ISBN: 0140289232 | English | EPUB | 420 pages | 1.7 Mb
Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified not by politics or ideology but by their shared obsession. For Lust of Knowing is an extraordinary, passionate book, both a sustained argument and a brilliant work of original scholarship.
Robet Irwin's non-fiction includes The Arabian Nights: A Companion, Islamic Art, Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature and The Alhambra. He is also the author of many novels. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the London Institute of Pataphysics.
Robert Irwin, "For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies"
