Journeys to the Other Shore : : Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge / / Roxanne L. Euben.
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 thes...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration and Spelling
- Chapter 1. Frontiers: Walls and Windows
- Chapter 2. Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices
- Chapter 3. Liars, Travelers, Theorists: Herodotus and Ibn Battuta
- Chapter 4. Travel in Search of Practical Wisdom
- Chapter 5. Gender, Genre, and Travel
- Chapter 6. Cosmopolitanisms Past and Present, Islamic and Western
- Notes
- Glossary of Arabic and Greek Terms
- Bibliography
- Index