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Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties

by Robert Irwin

Other books by Robert Irwin

Wonders Will Never Cease by Robert Irwin

The Arabian Nights: A Companion by Robert Irwin

For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies by Robert Irwin

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin

Our most recommended books

Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir by Erika Morillo

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Wonders Will Never Cease
by Robert Irwin

The Arabian Nights: A Companion
by Robert Irwin

For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies
by Robert Irwin

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography
by Robert Irwin

Patriot: A Memoir
by Alexei Navalny, translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History
by Manjula Martin

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair

The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
by Zito Madu

Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov

Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir
by Erika Morillo