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Robert Irwin

Born

in Guildford, England, The United Kingdom

August 23, 1946

Died

June 28, 2024

Genre

History, Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction

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Robert Graham Irwin was a British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 10,765 ratings · 920 reviews · 112 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Arabian Nightmare 3.80 avg rating — 764 ratings — published 1983 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography 3.66 avg rating — 341 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Satan Wants Me 3.92 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exquisite Corpse 3.73 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Alhambra 3.65 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2004 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wonders Will Never Cease 3.54 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 2016 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arabian Nights. A Companion 4.17 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1997 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents 3.68 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature 4.11 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties 3.66 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In the realm of the phenomenal, "less is more" only when less is the sum total of more.”
― Robert Irwin

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“The inner meaning of history . . . involves speculation and an attempt to get at the truth, subtle explanation of the causes and origins of existing things, and deep knowledge of the how and why of events. (History,) therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of (philosophy).”
― Robert Irwin, Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

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“Averroes, the last of the great medieval Arab philosophers, was fighting a rearguard defense of philosophy that was under attack from theologians, and, though translations of his works were to be much read in the universities of Christian Europe, he had little influence on later generations of thinkers in the Muslim world.”
― Robert Irwin, Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

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