LEADER 04380nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910345145903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08688-X 010 $a9786612086885 010 $a1-4008-2749-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827497 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756336 035 $a(EBL)445478 035 $a(OCoLC)342351276 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000186298 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157039 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000186298 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10219906 035 $a(PQKB)11763223 035 $a(OCoLC)646805730 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36245 035 $a(DE-B1597)446442 035 $a(OCoLC)1004876367 035 $a(OCoLC)979834942 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827497 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445478 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284232 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208688 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445478 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756336 100 $a20060601d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJourneys to the other shore $eMuslim and Western travelers in search of knowledge /$fRoxanne L. Euben 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in Muslim politics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12721-2 311 $a0-691-13840-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-301) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Transliteration and Spelling -- $tChapter 1. Frontiers: Walls and Windows -- $tChapter 2. Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices -- $tChapter 3. Liars, Travelers, Theorists: Herodotus and Ibn Battuta -- $tChapter 4. Travel in Search of Practical Wisdom -- $tChapter 5. Gender, Genre, and Travel -- $tChapter 6. Cosmopolitanisms Past and Present, Islamic and Western -- $tNotes -- $tGlossary of Arabic and Greek Terms -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. Journeys to the Other Shore challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement across lands and cultures, but also an imaginative journey in which wonder about those who live differently makes it possible to see the world differently. In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocqueville's journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, and Montesquieu's novel Persian Letters meets with the memoir of an East African princess, Sayyida Salme. This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown, the quest to understand foreign cultures, critical distance from one's own world, and the desire to remake the foreign into the familiar are not the monopoly of any single civilization or epoch. Euben demonstrates that the fluidity of identities, cultures, and borders associated with our postcolonial, globalized world has a long history--one shaped not only by Western power but also by an Islamic ethos of travel in search of knowledge. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in Muslim politics. 606 $aTravel, Medieval 606 $aVoyages and travels 606 $aTravelers$zArab countries 606 $aTravelers$zEurope 606 $aEast and West 615 0$aTravel, Medieval. 615 0$aVoyages and travels. 615 0$aTravelers 615 0$aTravelers 615 0$aEast and West. 676 $a910.4 700 $aEuben$b Roxanne Leslie$f1966-$01043380 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345145903321 996 $aJourneys to the other shore$92468313 997 $aUNINA