TY  - BOOK
AU  - Euben,Roxanne Leslie
TI  - Journeys to the other shore: Muslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge 
SN  - 0691127212 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - G89 .E93 2006
U1  - 910.4 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Travel, Medieval
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Travelers
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - Europe
KW  - East and West
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0614/2006017894.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0661/2006017894-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2006017894-b.html
ER  -