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For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
For Lust of Knowing The Orientalists and Their Enemies
Author: Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified not by politics or ideo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140289237
ISBN-10: 0140289232
Publication Date: 1/25/2007
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
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