Dr Robert Irwin was lecturer in
medieval history at the University of St Andrews.
Robert
Irwin is Middle East editor of the Times Literary
Supplement"
Robert Irwin
is a novelist, publisher, consultant editor at
the Times Literary Supplement and a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature. He is also the
author of The Middle East in the Midddle Ages:
The Bahri Mamluke Sultanate 1250-1382, The
Arabian Nights; A Companion, Islamic Art,
Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology
of Classical Arabic Literature and the
recently published The Alhambra. He is
currently editing a new translation of The
Arabian Nights as well as a volume of The
New Cambridge History of Islam. He is about
to finish a book on the history of Orientalism. Return
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JBOC:
Robert Irwin on Sayyid Qutb, the father of modern
Islamist fundamentalism
Irwin, Robert. "Islamic
Art". New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.1997
Irwin, Robert. Islamic Art in
Context: Art, Architecture, and the Literary
World
Irwin, Robert. Islamic Art in
Context. Prentice-Hall Perspective Series, 1997.
Irwin, R. G. "Review of
Egypt and Palestine: A Millennium of Association
(868-1948), edited by Amnon Cohen and Gabriel
Baer" in JRAS. No. 1. 1986. 103-105.
Irwin, Robert. The Middle East in
the Middle Ages: The Early Mamluk Sultanate
1250-1382. London: Croom Helm/Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
The Cambridge History of Egypt. Vol.1: Islamic
Egypt, 640-1517, edited by Carl F. Petry" in
MSR. Vol. 4. 2000. 271-277.
Ammann, Ludwig. "Review of
The Arabian Nights: A Companion, by Robert
Irwin" in JRAS. Vol. (3rd ser.) 4: No. 3.
1994. 412-413.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Warfare in the Latin East, 1192-1291, by
Christopher Marshall" in JRAS. Vol. (3rd
ser.) 3: No. 3. 1993. 440-441.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Labour in the Medieval Islamic World, by Maya
Shatzmiller" in BSOAS. Vol. 60. 1997.
133-134.
Irwin, Robert. "Egypt, Syria
and Their Trading Partners, 1450-1550" in
Oriental Carpet and Textile Studies. Vol. 2.
1986. 73-82.
Irwin, Robert. "Factions in
Medieval Egypt" in JRAS. 1986. 228-246.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
The Cambridge History of Egypt. Vol.1: Islamic
Egypt, 640-1517, edited by Carl F. Petry" in
MSR. Vol. 4. 2000. 271-277.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Das Pyramidenbuch des Abu Ga`far al-Idrisi (st.
649/1251), edited by Ulrich Haarmann" in
JRAS. Vol. (3rd ser.) 3: No. 2. 1993. 264-265.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
From Slave to Sultan: The Career of al-Mansur
Qalawun and the Consolidation of Mamluk Rule in
Egypt and Syria (678-689A.H./1279-1290A.D.), by
Linda S. Northrup" in MSR. Vol. 4. 2000.
245-247.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Three Shadow Plays by Muhammad Ibn Daniyal,
edited by Paul Kahle" in BSOAS. Vol. 56.
1993. 364-365.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Décrire le Caire: Fustat-Misr d'après Ibn
Duqmaq et Maqrizi: L'histoire d'une partie de la
ville du Caire d'après deux historiens
égyptiens des XIVe-XVe siècles, by Sylvie
Denoix" in JRAS. Vol. (3rd ser.) 5: No. 1.
1995. 110-111.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Les trois vies du sultan Baïbars: Choix des
textes et présentation, edited by Jacqueline
Sublet" in JAOS. Vol. 114. 1994. 104-106.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
The Evolution of a Sufi Institution in Mamluk
Egypt: The Khanqah, by Leonor Fernandes" in
JRAS. No. 2. 1989. 329-331.
Irwin, Robert. "Under
Western Eyes: A History of Mamluk Studies"
in MSR. Vol. 4. 2000. 27-51.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
The Office of Qâdî al-Qudât in Cairo under the
Bahrî Mamluks, by Joseph H. Escovitz" in
BSOAS. Vol. 49. 1986. 574-575.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Qur'ans of the Mamluks, by David James" in
JRAS. No. 2. 1989. 328-329.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamluk
Sultans and Egypt's Waning as a Great Power, by
Carl F. Petry; and Struggle for Domination in the
Middle East: The Ottoman-Mamluk War, 1485-91, by
Shai Har-El" in JRAS. Vol. 7. 1997. 133-136.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Tausendundeine Nacht: Eine Einführung, by Wiebke
Walther; and Pensée mythique, idéologie et
aspirations sociales dans un conte des mille et
une nuits: Le récit d'Ali du Caire, by Patrice
Coussonnet" in JRAS. Vol. 1. 1991. 280-284.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Al-Quds al-Mamlukiyya: A History of Mamluk
Jerusalem Based on the Haram Documents, by Huda
Lutfi" in JRAS. No. 1. 1987. 118-119.
Irwin, Robert. "Review of
Masalik al-Absar fi Mamalik al-Amsar d'Ibn Fadl
Allah al-`Umari. Sihab al-Din Ahmad b. Yahyá b.
Fadl Allah m.749/1349. L'Égypte, la Syrie, le
Higaz et le Yémen, edited by Ayman Fu'ad
Sayyid" in JRAS. No. 1. 1987. 116-117.
Irwin, R. G. "Review of
Egypt and Palestine: A Millennium of Association
(868-1948), edited by Amnon Cohen and Gabriel
Baer" in JRAS. No. 1. 1986. 103-105.
Irwin, Robert G. "What the
Partridge Told the Eagle: A Neglected Arabic
Source on Chinggis Khan and the Early History of
the Mongols" in The Mongol Empire and Its
Legacy. Amitai-Preiss, Reuven (edited by).
Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and
Texts; 24. Leiden, Boston, and Köln: E. J.
Brill, 1999. 5-11.
Irwin, Robert. "The Image of
the Byzantine and the Frank in Arab Popular
Literature of the Late Middle Ages" in
Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean
after 1204. Arbel, Benjamin. London: Frank Cass
and Company Limited, 1989. 226-242. Reprinted
from Mediterranean Historical Review, vol.4, no.1
(1989): 226-242.
Irwin, Robert. "The Mamluk
Conquest of the County of Tripoli" in
Crusade and Settlement: Papers Read at the First
Conference of the Society for the Study of the
Crusades and the Latin East and Presented to R.
C. Smail. Edbury, Peter W. (edited by). Cardiff:
University College Cardiff Press, 1985. 246-250.
Irwin, Robert. "The Supply
of Money and the Direction of Trade in
Thirteenth-Century Syria" in Coinage in the
Latin East: The Fourth Oxford Symposium on
Coinage and Monetary History. Edbury, Peter W.
(edited by). British Archeological Reports,
International Series; 77. Oxford: British
Archaeological Reports, 1980. 73-104.
Irwin, Robert. "Iqta` and
the End of the Crusader States" in The
Eastern Mediterranean Lands in the Period of the
Crusades. Holt, P. M. (edited by). Warminster:
Aris and Phillips, 1977. 62-77.
Irwin, Robert. The Arabian
Nights: A Companion. London: Allen Lane/The
Penguin Press, 1994.
Irwin, Robert. The Arabian
Nightmare. Harmondsworth: Penguin/New York:
Viking Penguin, 1987. First published in 1983 by
Dedalus; this edition with minor revisions.
Irwin, Robert. Der Arabische
Nachtmahr, oder: Die Geschichte der 1002. Nacht.
Cologne: Eugen Diederichs Verlag, 1985.
Translation of the Dedalus edition.
Irwin, Robert. The Middle East in
the Middle Ages: The Early Mamluk Sultanate
1250-1382. London: Croom Helm/Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Irwin, Robert. "Islam and
the Crusades, 1096-1699" in Oxford
Illustrated History of the Crusades. Riley-Smith,
Jonathan (edited by). Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1995. 217-259.
Irwin, Robert. "Abu al-Fida
(672-732/1273-1331)" in Encyclopedia of
Arabic Literature. Scott Meisami, Julie (edited
by). Vol. 1. London and New York: Routledge,
1998. 32.
Irwin, Robert. "Mamluk, II.
Mamluks of Egypt and Syria, 1. Introduction, 2.
Individual Patrons" in Dictionary of Art.
Turner, Jane (edited by). Vol. 20. London; New
York: Macmillan Publishers Limited; Grove's
Dictionaries Inc., 1996. 226-231.
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
