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Robert Irwin (b. 1946) read Modern History at Oxford and taught Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews, before resigning in 1977 to become a house-husband and write books. Since then he has published six novels: The Arabian Nightmare (chosen by Brian Stableford for his essay in Horror: 100 Best Books), The Limits of Vision, The Mysteries of Algiers, Exquisite Corpse, Prayer Cushions of the Flesh and Satan Wants Me. He has also published a few short stories. He is a director of a publishing company and a commissioning editor at the Times Literary Supplement. He has also pursued an intermittent career as a freelance scholar and has published The Middle East in the Middle Ages: The Early Mamluk Sultanate 1250-1382, The Arabian Nights: A Companion, Islamic Art, Night and Horses and the Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature and The Alhambra. Irwin is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Fellow of the London College of Pataphysics.