TY - BOOK AU - Euben,Roxanne Leslie TI - Journeys to the other shore: Muslim and western travelers in search of knowledge T2 - Princeton studies in Muslim politics SN - 9780691138404 U1 - 910.4 22 PY - 2006///] CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Travel, Medieval KW - BUEsh KW - Voyages and travels KW - Travelers KW - Arab countries KW - Europe KW - East and West KW - Reading book N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017894.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2006017894-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2006017894-b.html ER -