Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben.
By: Euben, Roxanne Leslie
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BookSeries: Princeton studies in Muslim politics. Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006Description: xii, 313 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0691127212 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780691127217 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Travel, Medieval | Voyages and travels | Travelers -- Arab countries | Travelers -- Europe | East and WestOnline resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) 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-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.
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