Robert Irwin – Memoirs of a Dervish

When:
May 6, 2015 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
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Where:
Wadham College, Gillese-Badun Room, McCall McBain Graduate Centre
Wadham College
University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PN
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Oxford Society for Sufi Studies

The newly launched Oxford Society for Sufi Studies launches on Wednesday of 2nd Week (6th May), with a talk from renowned author Robert Irwin on his book Memoirs of a Dervish, which chronicles his experiences in an Algerian Sufi community in the ’60s. Robert Irwin is the author of a number of novels on Arabic-related themes, several books on Arabic-Islamic art, history and literature, and a well-known rebuttal of Edward Said’s Orientalism.
Join us at 7.30pm next Wednesday, at Wadham College, in the Gillese-Badun Room, McCall McBain Graduate Centre, for what promises to be a fascinating talk, the first of four events organised by the society for this term.