Just published:
Robert Irwin,
Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties (
$17.59 from Amazon US and
£8.49 from Amazon UK). This is an autobiographical account by a talented writer and novelist of his own journey from 1960s
Oxford through the
Maryamiyya to
Mostaghanem and onwards. Irwin, who is Middle East editor of
The Times Literary Supplement, is perhaps best known for his criticisms of Edward Said's
Orientalism. Well worth reading, and endorsed by Esther Freud (of
Hideous Kinky).
Assalamu alaykum,
ReplyDeleteIs he still Muslim? Reading some of his reviews posted online, it's hard to tell.