For Lust of Knowing. The Orientalists and Their Enemies, Paperback/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. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Author(s): Robert Irwin Number of pages: 416 Publication date: 2007 Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 25 Cover type: Paperback / softback