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Robert Irwin


Robert Irwin, a British novelist and scholar of medieval Islam, is the Middle East editor of the Times Literary Supplement. His most recent novel is Wonders Will Never Cease.

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  1. Response ·

    Jerusalem of (Fool’s) Gold

    By Robert Irwin

    Edward Rothstein opens his essay on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven , with a well-deserved tribute to the gorgeousness of the objects on...

    Jerusalem of (Fool’s) Gold
  2. Response ·

    Middle East Pundits and their Mainly Worthless Prophecies

    By Robert Irwin

    First, through the good offices of Mosaic , let me wish Bernard Lewis, my former thesis supervisor, a happy one-hundredth birthday! Next, let me commend Martin Kramer’s “ The Return of Bernard Lewis...

    Middle East Pundits and their Mainly Worthless Prophecies