Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.

In the LRB Archive:

• Leo’s Silences: the travels of Leo Africanus · 8 February 2007

  • Trickster Travels: A 16th-Century Muslim between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis

• Only the Camels: Wilfred Thesiger · 6 April 2006

  • Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of the Great Explorer by Alexander Maitland

• Where are the playboys?: The politics of Arab fiction · 18 August 2005

  • Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi

• Quite a Gentleman: The invariably savage Tamerlane · 19 May 2005

  • Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi

• Ramadan Nights: How the Koran Works · 7 August 2003

  • The Koran translated by N.J. Dawood

• An Endless Progression of Whirlwinds on Asian empire · 21 June 2001

  • Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia by Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac
  • Tibet: The Great Game and Tsarist Russia by Tatiana Shaumian

• An Urbane Scholar in a Wilderness of Tigers on Albert Hourani · 25 January 2001

  • A Vision of the Middle East: An Intellectual Biography of Albert Hourani by Abdulaziz Al-Sudairi

• Church of Garbage · 3 February 2000

  • The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand

• Ways to hate Delacroix, and then Matisse on French art · 10 June 1999

  • The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism 1798-1836 by Todd Porterfield

• Top Grumpy’s Top Hate: Richard Aldington’s Gripes · 18 February 1999

  • Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia: A Cautionary Tale by Fred Crawford
  • Lawrence the Uncrowned King of Arabia by Michael Asher

• I am a false alarm on Khalil Gibran · 3 September 1998

  • Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins
  • Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran by Robin Waterfield

• Hiveward-Winging · 3 July 1997

  • Quarantine by Jim Crace

• Back to the futuh · 1 August 1996

  • The Middle East: 2000 Years of History from the Birth of Christianity to the Present Day by Bernard Lewis

• Ozymandias Syndrome · 24 August 1995

  • Islamic Architecture by Robert Hillenbrand
  • The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom
  • The Mosque: History, Architectural Development and Regional Diversity edited by Martin Frishman and Hassan-Uddin Khan
  • Iznik: The Pottery of Ottoman Turkey by Nurhan Atasoy and Julian Raby

• Mecca Bound · 21 July 1994

  • The Hajj: Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places by F.E. Peters
  • Pilgrims and Sultans: The Hajj under the Ottomans by Suraiya Faroqhi
  • The Hadj: A Pilgrimage to Mecca by Michael Wolfe

• Diary · 7 July 1994

• Diary · 2 December 1993

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