Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and western travelers in search of knowledge /
Euben, Roxanne Leslie, 1966-
Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben. - xii, 313 pages ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in Muslim politics .
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.
9780691138404
Travel, Medieval.
Voyages and travels.
Travelers--Arab countries.
Travelers--Europe.
East and West.
--Reading book
910.4 / EUB
Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben. - xii, 313 pages ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in Muslim politics .
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.
9780691138404
Travel, Medieval.
Voyages and travels.
Travelers--Arab countries.
Travelers--Europe.
East and West.
--Reading book
910.4 / EUB