Robert Irwin: For Lust of Knowing [2006] hardback Condition:New telescopes to microscopes

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Robert Irwin: For Lust of Knowing [2006] hardback Condition:New telescopes to microscopesRobert Irwin has spent a lifetime investigating and imagining the history of the Islamic world. In "For Lust of Knowing", the culmination of that lifetime's devotion, he makes the definitive case for the Orientalists. Irwin charts the origins of Orientalism in this case, the study of the Middle and near East and its foremost practitioners, from Ancient Greece up to the present day. In doing so, he finally banishes the ghosts of Edward Said's