Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben.
Material type: TextSeries: Princeton studies in Muslim politicsPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006]Copyright date: c2006Description: xii, 313 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780691138404
- 22 910.4 EUB
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Book - Borrowing | Central Library Second Floor | Baccah | 910.4 EUB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 10268 | Available | 000020711 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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-�ilm -- 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.
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