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Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge
- Title
- Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben.
- Author
- Euben, Roxanne Leslie, 1966-
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- xii, 313 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Princeton studies in Muslim politics
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-14280
- ISBN
- 0691127212 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780691127217 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006017894
- OCLC
- 69792066
- Author
- Euben, Roxanne Leslie, 1966-
- Title
- Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben.
- Imprint
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006.
- Series
- Princeton studies in Muslim politics
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-14280