Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben.
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TextSeries: Princeton studies in Muslim politicsPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006Description: xii, 313 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0691127212 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780691127217 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Travel, Medieval | Voyages and travels | Travelers -- Arab countries | Travelers -- Europe | East and WestDDC classification: 910.4 LOC classification: G89 | .E93 2006Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information | Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | NFIC | General Stacks | 910.4 EUB 2006 (Browse shelf) | Available | CIPS0000532 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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