Memoirs of a Dervish

Robert Irwin begins his recently published Memoirs of a Dervish with the words, “It was in my first year at Oxford that I decided that I wanted to become a Muslim saint”. His entertaining and enlightening memoir recounts his travels in post-independence Algeria, his involvement in Islamic mystical orders there and the various “ludicrous and half-witted aspects of the hippy sixties” he encounters during his time as a student in Oxford and London...[continue reading]