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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.

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Leo’s Silences · 8 February 2007

subscriber-only content Only the Camels · 6 April 2006

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

subscriber-only content Where are the playboys? · 18 August 2005

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

subscriber-only content Quite a Gentleman · 19 May 2005

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

subscriber-only content Ramadan Nights · 7 August 2003

  • The Koran translated by N.J. Dawood

11 September · 4 October 2001

subscriber-only content An Endless Progression of Whirlwinds · 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

subscriber-only content An Urbane Scholar in a Wilderness of Tigers · 25 January 2001

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

I am a false alarm · 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

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Church of Garbage · 3 February 2000

  • The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand

 not available in archive Ways to hate Delaxroix, and then Matisse · 10 June 1999

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

 not available in archive Top Grumpy’s Top Hate · 18 February 1999

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