Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge
The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical mo
1 online resource (xii, 313 pages).
9780691138404, 9786612086885, 9781400827497, 0691138400, 6612086882, 1400827493
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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
English
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