DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE in WSJ

Further praise for DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE: ORIENTALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS from The Wall Street Journal Weekend:

"Mr. Irwin, trained as an Arabist, has written scholarly studies of Islamic history and is the author of "Night & Horses & the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature" and other books on Near Eastern subjects. He is thus an expert in his field and a skilled writer. With this book, he has put these abilities to splendid use, both in providing a detailed history of European Orientalism and in rebutting the influential onslaught against the discipline mounted by the late Edward Said more than 25 years ago in "Orientalism."... With "Dangerous Knowledge" and its depiction of "orientalists" as discrete individuals — with all the prejudices and mixed motives so many of them exhibited, together with their genuine, and often painfully won, accomplishments — Mr. Irwin has provided the nuanced critique of Islamic studies that Edward Said, with his self-aggrandizing bluster, failed to deliver."