# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-irwin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:04:26.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-irwin"
name: "Robert Irwin"
slug: "robert-irwin"
description: "Robert Graham Irwin 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\"."
tagline: "British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature (1946–2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Robert_Irwin_%281946%E2%80%932024%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-08-23"
deathDate: "2024-06-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.8387
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.dedalusbooks.com/our-authors-and-translators-details.php?id=00000064&fr=00000185"
sources:
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    title: "روبرت اروين (مؤلف)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irwin_(Historiker)"
    title: "Robert Irwin (Historiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irwin_(writer)"
    title: "Robert Irwin (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Irwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irwin_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Robert Irwin (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irwin_(penulis)"
    title: "Robert Irwin (penulis)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irwin"
    title: "Robert Irwin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Irwin"
    title: "Robert Irwin"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump