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Journeys to the other shore: Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780691138404 (pbk.)
ISBN	0691138404 (pbk.)
Author	Euben, Roxanne Leslie 1966-
Title	Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / [by] Roxanne L. Euben
Publisher	Princeton, NJ ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2006
Physical desc.	[xiii], 313 p. ; 24 cm.
Series	Princeton studies in Muslim politics
Note	Second printing, first paperback printing, 2008.
Bibliography etc.	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 theôria -- '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 -- Conclusion -- Travel in search of practical wisdom: the modern theôriai 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.
Subject	Travelers -- Middle East -- History
	Travelers -- Europe -- History
	Travel, Medieval
	Voyages and travels
	East and West

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