For Lust of Knowing. The Orientalists and Their Enemies, Paperback

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