| Description |
1 online resource ([xiii], 313 pages) |
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Princeton studies in Muslim politics |
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Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Spelling; CHAPTER 1 Frontiers: Walls and Windows-Some Reflections on Travel Narratives; CHAPTER 2 Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices; CHAPTER 3 Liars, Travelers, Theorists-Herodotus and Ibn Battuta; CHAPTER 4 Travel in Search of Practical Wisdom: The Modern Theôriai of al-Tahtawi and Tocqueville; CHAPTER 5 Gender, Genre, and Travel: Montesquieu and Sayyida Salme; CHAPTER 6 Cosmopolitanisms Past and Present, Islamic and Western; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement acr |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2006 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-301) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Travel, Medieval.
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Voyages and travels.
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Travelers -- Arab countries
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Travelers -- Europe
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Muslims -- Travel
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Christians -- Travel
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East and West.
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journeys.
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TRAVEL -- Essays & Travelogues.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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East and West
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Muslims -- Travel
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Travel, Medieval
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Travelers
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Voyages and travels
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Arab countries
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400827497 |
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1400827493 |
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128208688X |
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9781282086883 |
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