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For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
Robert Irwin
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
Robert Irwin
The history of Orientalism shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified by their shared obsession. This book is a work of scholarship.
416 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 25, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780140289237 |
Publishers | Penguin Books Ltd |
Pages | 416 |
Dimensions | 128 × 198 × 25 mm · 302 g |
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