Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben.
Author
- Euben, Roxanne Leslie 1966-
Published
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press c2006
Physical description
xii, 313 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 9780691138404 (pbk.)
- 0691138400 (pbk.)
- 0691127212 (hardcover)
- 9780691127217 (hardcover)
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
Genre
- Bibliography
Language
- English
Holdings information at the University of Essex
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| Albert Sloman Library | G 89 |
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