Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700
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Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700

To the East and Back Again

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Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700

To the East and Back Again

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Publisher
Arc Humanities Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781942401605
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. LIST OF FIGURES
  3. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. INTRODUCTION: TRAVEL AS EPISTEME—AN INTRODUCTORY JOURNEY
  6. PART I. TRANSFORMING THE RIHLA TRADITION: THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE IN JEWISH, MUSLIM, AND CHRISTIAN TRAVELLERS
  7. Chapter 1. From Pious Journeys to the Critique of Sovereignty: Khaqani Shirvani’s Persianate Poetics of Pilgrimage
  8. Chapter 2. Observing Ziyara in Two Medieval Muslim Travel Accounts
  9. Chapter 3. Vulnerable Medieval Iberian Travellers: Benjamin of Tudela’s Sefer ha- Massa’ot, Pero Tafur’s Andanças e viajes, and Ahmad al- Wazzan’s Libro de la Cosmogrophia et Geographia de Africa
  10. PART II. IMAGINING THE EAST: EGYPT, PERSIA, AND ISTANBUL IN MY MIND
  11. Chapter 4. “Tierras de Egipto”: Imagined Journeys to the East in the Early Vernacular Literature of Medieval Iberia
  12. Chapter 5. The Petrification of Rostam: Thomas Herbert’s Re- vision of Persia in A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile
  13. Chapter 6. Between Word and Image: Representations of Shi‘ite Rituals in the Safavid Empire from Early Modern European Travel Accounts
  14. Chapter 7. Visions and Transitions of a Pilgrimage of Curiosity: Pietro Della Valle’s Travel to Istanbul (1614–1615)
  15. PART III. TO THE EAST AND BACK: EXCHANGING OBJECTS, IDEAS, AND TEXTS
  16. Chapter 8. Gift- giving in the Carpini Expedition to Mongolia (1246– 1248 ce)
  17. Chapter 9. The East– West Trajectory of Sephardic Sectarianism: From Ibn Daud to Spinoza
  18. Chapter 10. Piety and Piracy: The Repatriation of the Arm of St. Francis Xavier
  19. Chapter 11. The Other Woman: The Geography of Exclusion in The Knight of Malta (1618)
  20. Chapter 12. Experiential Knowledge and the Limits of Merchant Credit
  21. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  22. INDEX