For Lust of Knowing
Author: Irwin, Robert
ISBN: 9780140289237
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 25 Jan 2007
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback / softback
'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.
ISBN: 9780140289237
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 25 Jan 2007
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback / softback
'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.
