Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben.
Author
- Euben, Roxanne Leslie 1966-
Published
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press 2006
Physical description
xii,311 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 0691127212 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780691127217 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Local notes
- Committed to retain (2018) (Leeds University)
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
- Frontiers: walls and windows-some reflections of 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
- text
Language
- English
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