chip away at single bricks. They also do nothing to discount the fertility of Orientalism for other academics. The most thought-provoking works it has inspired have not blindly accepted Said's propositions, but have expanded and modified them." Published works Fiction The Arabian Nightmare (Dedalus 1983) The Limits of Vision (Dedalus 1986) The Mysteries of Algiers (Dedalus 1988) Exquisite Corpse (Dedalus 1995) Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh (Dedalus 1997) Satan Wants Me (Dedalus 1999) Wonders Will Never Cease (Dedalus 2016) My Life is like a Fairy Tale (Dedalus 2019) The Runes Have Been Cast (Dedalus 2021) Nonfiction The Middle East in the Middle Ages: the Early Mamluk Sultanate 1250–1382 (Croom Helm 1986) The Arabian Nights: A Companion (Allen Lane 1994) Islamic Art (Laurence King 1997) Night and Horses and the Desert: the Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature (Allen Lane 1999) The Alhambra (Harvard University Press, 2005). For Lust of Knowing: the Orientalists and their Enemies (Allen Lane, 2006). (US edition: Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents (Overlook Press, 2006) Camel (Reaktion Books 2010) Mamluks and Crusaders (Ashgate Variorum 2010) Visions of the Jinn; Illustrators of the Arabian Nights (The Arcadian Library 2010) Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties (Profile Books, 2011) Quotes "During the Rushdie case, the leader of the largest Buddhist organisation in Britain was asked how Buddhists would react to blasphemy, and he answered: "We support it, because it makes people think." – That was well said. I don't know how to react, but it strikes me that Muhammed is increasingly given a divine status which he didn't have in original Islam. Muhammed is no god. He is a human being making mistakes which, by the way, is evident from the authorised accounts about his life." On Edward Said's work Orientalism: "I am a medievalist, but he hates the Middle Ages. Altogether he loathes the past, he does not have the ability to enter into the spirit of other ages. He lies about European novelists and twists their words; I am myself a novelist with great sympathy for some of those whom he denounces in his book. Finally, I am an orientalist, too, and his book is a long and persevering polemic against my subject, so I need to ask: is there anything at all to like in Said's book? – No. It is written far too quickly and carelessly. It abounds with misprints and mis-spelled