LEADER 04477nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910461803703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-59829-8 010 $a9786613628121 010 $a0-231-51208-2 024 7 $a10.7312/mata14194 035 $a(CKB)2670000000187292 035 $a(EBL)908455 035 $a(OCoLC)826476185 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611832 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12181369 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611832 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10667347 035 $a(PQKB)10739820 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908455 035 $a(DE-B1597)459104 035 $a(OCoLC)979720512 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231512084 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908455 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10538257 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL362812 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000187292 100 $a20080612d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEurope through Arab eyes, 1578-1727$b[electronic resource] /$fNabil Matar 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14194-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-300) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note on Transliteration -- $tChronology -- $tList of Rulers -- $tPart one -- $tIntroduction -- $tI. Popular Sources: Accounts of Muslim Captivity in Christendom -- $tII. Elite Sources: Muslim Ambassadors in Christendom -- $tConclusion: Encountering the Dunya of the Christians -- $tPart two -- $tTranslations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aTraveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims had no interest in Europe during this period of Western discovery and empire, but in fact these groups were very much engaged with the naval and industrial development, politics, and trade of European Christendom. Beginning in 1578 with a major Moroccan victory over a Portuguese invading army, Matar surveys this early modern period, in which Europeans and Arabs often shared common political, commercial, and military goals. Matar concentrates on how Muslim captives, ransomers, traders, envoys, travelers, and rulers pursued those goals while transmitting to the nonprint cultures of North Africa their knowledge of the peoples and societies of Spain, France, Britain, Holland, Italy, and Malta. From the first non-European description of Queen Elizabeth I to early accounts of Florence and Pisa in Arabic, from Tunisian descriptions of the Morisco expulsion in 1609 to the letters of a Moroccan Armenian ambassador in London, the translations of the book's second half draw on the popular and elite sources that were available to Arabs in the early modern period. Letters from male and female captives in Europe, chronicles of European naval attacks and the taqayid (newspaper) reports on Muslim resistance, and descriptions of opera and quinine appear here in English for the first time. Matar notes that the Arabs of the Maghrib and the Mashriq were eager to engage Christendom, despite wars and rivalries, and hoped to establish routes of trade and alliances through treaties and royal marriages. However, the rise of an intolerant and exclusionary Christianity and the explosion of European military technology brought these advances to an end. In conclusion, Matar details the decline of Arab-Islamic power and the rise of Britain and France. 606 $aArabs$xAttitudes 607 $aArab countries$xRelations$zEurope 607 $aEurope$xRelations$zArab countries 607 $aEurope$xForeign public opinion, Arab 607 $aEurope$xHistory$y17th century$vSources 607 $aArab countries$xHistory$y1517-1918$vSources 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArabs$xAttitudes. 676 $a303.48/24017492709032 700 $aMatar$b N. I$g(Nabil I.),$f1949-$0976841 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461803703321 996 $aEurope through Arab eyes, 1578-1727$92453311 997 $aUNINA