Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2006]
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| Series: | Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Publisher description |
Table of 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.