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GB 891 RASM-RASM/8
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Robert Irwin
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- 2021-2023 (Creation)
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4 pieces typed, 1 digital poster and 6 digital photographs
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(1946-)
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Robert Irwin was born in 1946. He read modern history at Oxford and taught medieval history at the University of St. Andrews. He has held teaching appointments in Arabic and Middle Eastern history at Oxford and Cambridge. He is a scholar of Arabic history and author of novels, translations and literary studies willing to provide an argument against prevailing orthodoxies.
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Robert Irwin was initially nominated for the Society's Richard Burton Medal but it was decided to honour him with the Royal Asiatic Society Medal in 2023, the Society's bicentenary year. The archival material associated with this award is:
- Letters in support of the nomination of Robert Irwin, typed, 4 pieces, dated 22 September 2021.
- Publicity poster for the award of the medal and Irwin's lecture Tales from the Mamluk Crypt: Predecessors of Modern Horror, held on 4 May 2023.
- Six photographs from the award presentation, 4 May 2023.
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gb891 rasm/8