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For Lust of Knowing

Paperback • 2007 • English

For Lust of Knowing

By Robert Irwin

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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9780140289237

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

For Lust of Knowing

Format

Paperback

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