![Robert Irwin: For Lust of Knowing [2006] hardback Condition:New is distinguished by order and](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0616/4001/6057/products/irwin-robert-for-lust-of-knowing-h-b-orientalists-the-9780713994155-40387901260066.jpg?v=1674164862)
Pay in 4 interest-free payments of $3.75 Learn more
Ships within 48 hours · Estimated delivery Aug 5 - Aug 10
is distinguished by order and by achievement
Sophie Hannah
telescopes to microscopes
Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew
with equal hope and rage
Robert Irwin: For Lust of Knowing [2006] hardback Condition:New is distinguished by order andRobert 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
