Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben.
Author
- Euben, Roxanne Leslie 1966-
Published
- Princeton, [N.J.] ; Oxford : Princeton University Press [2006], ©2006
Physical description
xii, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 0691127212
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) and index.
Contents
- Frontiers: walls and windows-some reflections on travel narratives -- Traveling theorists and translating practices -- Theory and theoria -- "Seeing the entire world as a foreign land" -- Exposures and closures -- Islam, travel, and talab al-ʻilm -- The double-edged nature of travel -- Travel as translation -- Liars, travelers, theorists-Herodotus and Ibn Battuta -- Travel in search of practical wisdom: the modern theoriai of al-Tahtawi and Tocqueville -- Authorizing autopsy -- Travels across time and space -- Multiple mediations -- Conclusion -- Gender, genre, and travel: Montesquieu and Sayyida Salme -- Montesquieu's Persian letters -- Sayyida Salme's memoirs -- Conclusion -- Cosmopolitanisms past and present, Islamic and Western.
Subject
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- http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2006017894-b.html
Genre
- Bibliography
- text
Language
- English
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