For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies (平装)
分類: 图书,进口原版书,Arts & Photography(艺术与摄影),
品牌: Robert Irwin
基本信息出版社:Penguin (2007年1月25日)平装:416页正文语种:英语ISBN:0140289232条形码:9780140289237产品尺寸及重量:19.6 x 12.8 x 3.4 cm ; 323 gASIN:0140289232
商品描述内容简介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 ideology but by their shared obsession. "For Lust of Knowing" is an extraordinary, passionate book, both a sustained argument and a brilliant work of original scholarship.作者简介Robert Irwin is a publisher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. His works of non-fiction include The Arabian Nights, Islamic Art, Night & Horses & the Desert and The Alhambra.