Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben.
Author
- Euben, Roxanne Leslie 1966-
Series
Other titles
- Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge
Published
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press 2008
Physical description
1 online resource ([xiii], 313 pages).
ISBN
- 9781400827497
- 1400827493
- 128208688X
- 9781282086883
Notes
- Originally published: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-301) and index.
- Reproduction available: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
- Original electronic resource Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary,
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- English
- Available in electronic full text to members of the University via the Library web catalogue.
- Print version record.
Contents
- Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Spelling; CHAPTER 1 Frontiers: Walls and Windows-Some Reflections on Travel Narratives; CHAPTER 2 Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices; CHAPTER 3 Liars, Travelers, Theorists-Herodotus and Ibn Battuta; CHAPTER 4 Travel in Search of Practical Wisdom: The Modern Theôriai of al-Tahtawi and Tocqueville; CHAPTER 5 Gender, Genre, and Travel: Montesquieu and Sayyida Salme; CHAPTER 6 Cosmopolitanisms Past and Present, Islamic and Western; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
Subject
- Ibn Batṭụ̄tạh, Muhạmmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh.
- Tạhtạ̄wī, Rifāʻat Rāfiʻ 1801-1873.
- Ruete, Emilie 1844-1924.
- Tạhtạ̄wī, Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ
- Ibn Batụ̄tạh, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh
- Ṭahṭāwī, Rifāʻat Rāfiʻ.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Voyages and travels.
- Travelers Arab countries.
- Travelers Europe.
- Muslims Travel.
- Christians Travel.
- East and West.
- TRAVEL Essays & Travelogues.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural.
- East and West.
- Muslims Travel.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Travelers.
- Voyages and travels.
- Geography-General.
- Geography.
- Earth & Environmental Sciences.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Voyages and travels.
- Travelers Arab countries.
- Travelers Europe.
- Muslims Travel.
- Christians Travel.
- East and West.
- East and West.
- Muslims Travel.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Travelers.
- Voyages and travels.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Voyages and travels.
- Travelers Europe.
- East and West.
- journeys.
- Travellers Arab countries.
- Travellers Europe.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Voyages and travels.
- East and West.
- Muslims Travel.
- Travel, Medieval
- Travelers
- Voyages and travels
- East and West
- Muslims
- Social sciences
- Voyage Histoire 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
- Voyages.
- Voyageurs États arabes.
- Voyageurs Europe.
- Reizen.
- Reizigers.
- Reisender.
- Reisebericht.
- Weltbürgertum.
- Reisender Europäer Arabische Staaten Geschichte.
- Reisender Muslim Europa Geschichte.
- Muslim Reisender Europa Geschichte.
- Weltbürgertum.
- Reisender.
- Reisebericht.
- Fremdbild.
- Geschichtsschreibung.
- Voyage Histoire 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
- Voyageurs États arabes.
- Musulmans Voyages.
- Chrétiens Voyages.
- Arab countries.
- Europe.
- Arab countries.
- Europe.
- Arab countries
- Europe
- Orient et Occident.
- Islamitische wereld.
- Westerse wereld.
- Arabische Staaten.
- Westliche Welt.
- Europäer Reisender Arabische Staaten Geschichte.
- Europa Reisender Muslim Geschichte.
- Arabische Staaten Reisender Europäer Geschichte.
- Islamische Staaten.
- Europa.
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Summary
- The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement acr.
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