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Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge
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- Creator
- Roxanne L. Euben
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xii, 313 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 128208688X, 1400827493, 9786612086885, 9780691127217, 0691138400, 0691127212
- OCLC
- ocn342351276, ocm69792066, ocn646805730, ocn979834942, on1004876367
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [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