(Editor) Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature, Overlook Press (Woodstock, NY), 2000. Islamic Art in Context: Art, Architecture, and the Literary World, Prentice-Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ), 1999.

Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh (novel), Dedalus (London, England), 1999, Overlook Press (Woodstock, NY), 2002. Satan Wants Me (novel), Dedalus (London, England), 1997. Martin's (New York, NY), 2004.Įxquisite Corpse (novel), Dedalus (London, England), 1995, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1997. The Arabian Nights: A Companion, Viking (New York, NY), 1994, revised with a new preface and updated introduction, St. The Mysteries of Algiers (novel), Viking (New York, NY), 1988. The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The Early Mamluk Sultanate, 1250-1382 (nonfiction), Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, IL), 1986. The Limits of Vision (novel), Viking ( New York, NY), 1986. The Arabian Nightmare (novel), Dedalus (London, England), 1983, revised edition, Viking ( New York, NY), 1987. Royal Asiatic Society (fellow), Society of Antiquarians (fellow), Royal Society of Literature (fellow).

Andrews, Fife, Scotland, lecturer in medieval history, 1972-77 part-time teacher of Arabic and Middle Eastern history at Cambridge University, Oxford University, and University of London, 1977. Agent-Juri Gabriel, 35 Camberwell Grove, London, England. Hobbies and other interests: Juggling, roller-blading, crossword puzzles. Education: Merton College, Oxford, B.A., 1967 graduate study at School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1967-72. He has been highly critical of Edward Said‘s Orientalism, Other linksįall of orientalism Arab and Islamic scholarship is dying in the west.Irwin, Robert 1946- (Robert Graham Irwin) PERSONAL:īorn August 23, 1946, in Guildford, Surrey, England son of Joseph Alan (a psychiatrist) and Wilhemina (a homemaker) Irwin married Helen Elizabeth Taylor (a parliamentary clerk), Septemchildren: Felicity Anne. he has written both fiction and non-fiction, including works on the Arabian Nights and Middle East history. He is currently a Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Middle East editor of The Times Literary Supplement. He then became a full-time writer, while teaching part-time. He then became a lecturer in medieval history at the University of St. He converted to Islam and spent some time in a dervish monastery in Algeria.

He started a thesis on the Mamluk reconquest of the Crusader states but never finished it. He read modern history at Oxford University and then did graduate research at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin