Robert Irwin (writer)

Robert Irwin
Born	Robert Graham Irwin (1946-08-23)23 August 1946 Guildford, England
Died	28 June 2024(2024-06-28) (aged 77) London, England
Education	University of Oxford
Occupations	Scholar novelist
Notable work	The Arabian Nightmare (1983) For Lust of Knowing (2006) Memoirs of a Dervish (2011)

Robert Graham Irwin (23 August 1946 – 28 June 2024) was a British scholar and novelist. Notable among of his scholarly works is For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, a critique of Edward Said's concept of "Orientalism".