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For Lust of Knowing : the Orientalists and their enemies by Robert Irwin
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
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, scholar ...Show more
Ibn Khaldun - An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
$40.00 AUD
Category: Middle East
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the ...Show more
Muhammad by Maxime Rodinson; Anne Carter (Translator); Robert Irwin (Afterword by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A classic secular history of the prophet Muhammad that vividly recreates the fascinating time in which Islam was born.Maxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the Sorbonne, first published his biography of Muhammad in 1960. The book, a classic in its field, has been wide ...Show more
The Arabian Nights - Tales of 1,001 Nights Volume 2 295-719 by Robert Irwin
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Arabian Nights 2
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled ...Show more
The Arabian Nights - Tales of 1,001 Nights Volume 3 719-1001 by Robert Irwin (ed.)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Arabian Nights 3
Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled ...Show more
The Last Crocodile Hunter by Robert E. Irwin; Amanda French; Bob Irwin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Bob Irwin grew up in the Dandenong Ranges where his passion for wildlife was born. A near-death experience made him realize he needed to follow his dreams, so he and his wife Lyn moved their young family to Queensland and opened a wildlife park. The Irwin children grew up around the Beerwah Reptile & ...Show more
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