Robert Graham Irwin
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Robert Graham Irwin (born 1946) is a British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature.
He read modern history at the University of Oxford, and did graduate research at SOAS. From 1972 he was a lecturer in Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews. He gave up the academic life in 1977, to write.
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Works
- The Arabian Nightmare (Dedalus Books, 1983, novel)
- The Middle East in the Middle Ages:The Early Mamluk Sultanate 1250-1382 (1984)
- The Limits of Vision (Dedalus Books, 1986, novel)
- The Mysteries of Algiers (Dedalus Books, 1988, novel)
- The Arabian Nights: A Companion (1994)
- Exquisite Corpse (Dedalus Books, 1995, novel)
- Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh (Dedalus Books, 1997, novel)
- Islamic Art (1997)
- Satan Wants Me (Dedalus Books, 1999, novel)
- Night and Horses and the Desert: the Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature (1999)
- The Alhambra (Harvard University Press, 2005)
- For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies (2006)
- Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents (Overlook Press, 2006)
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