For Lust of Knowing : the Orientalists and their enemies
Author(s): Robert Irwin
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. First published 2006.
Product Information
Robert Irwin is a publisher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. His works of non-fiction include The Arabian Nights, Islamic Art, Night & Horses & the Desert and The Alhambra.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.309
- : 01 January 2007
- : 198mm X 129mm X 23mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Robert Irwin
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 950.07
- : very good
- : 416