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Euben, Roxanne Leslie, 1966-

Journeys to the other shore : Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge / Roxanne L. Euben. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006. - xii, 313 p. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in Muslim politics .

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.

ISBN: 0691127212 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780691127217 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006017894

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA674481 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013541608 Uk

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Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013541608 Uk

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LC Class. No.: G89 / .E93 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 910.4