For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Robert Irwin
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreAsian and Middle Eastern history
ISBN/Barcode 9780140289237
ClassificationsDewey:950.07
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 25 January 2007
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'About nine parts erudite civil charm to one part blazing napalm ... wonderfully well-informed' Sunday Times 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.

Author Biography

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.