Robert Graham Irwin
Senior Research Associate of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
PhilosophyPhilosophers of historyPhilosophers of economicsIslamic philosophersTheoretical historiansWriters about globalizationFrame storiesAutobiographersAsharis, Muslim critics of atheismUniversity of al-Qarawiyyin alumniEconomists of the medieval Islamic world, MujaddidMedieval Arabic literatureBooks illustrated by John TennielWorks subject to expurgationPersian mythology
Ibn Khaldun
Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Hoyland, Robert Irwin and Hugh Kennedy discuss the life and ideas of the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun.
4 February 2010
Also featuring: Robert Hoyland, Hugh N. Kennedy
The Arabian Nights
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Arabian Nights - an ever shifting sea of stories across Asia and Europe.
18 October 2007
Also featuring: Marina Warner, Gerard van Gelder