For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
by Irwin, Robert (Author)
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Penguin, 2007. Paperback. New. 416 pages. 7.72x5.04x1.34 inches.
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For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies, published in the United States under the title Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents, is a 2006 non-fiction book by British historian Robert Graham Irwin. The book is both a history of the academic discipline of Orientalism and an attack on Edward Said's 1978 book Orientalism. The title of the British version of the book comes from the poem "The Golden Journey to Samarkand" by James Elroy Flecker.
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- Title
- For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
- Author
- Irwin, Robert (Author)
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- Paperback
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- New
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- ISBN 10
- 0140289232
- ISBN 13
- 9780140289237
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2007
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