Journeys to the Other Shore (eBook)

Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge

Roxanne L. Euben (Autor)

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2008
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2749-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The 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.

Autor

Roxanne L. Euben is the Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. She is the author of Enemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism (Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Age of Enlightenment • Alexis de Tocqueville • Al-Ghazali • Ambivalence • Arabic literature • arabs • awareness • Barbarian • Career • Civilization • Colonialism • Cosmopolitanism • critical distance • Criticism • cross-cultural • deed • democracy in America • despotism • Divisions of the world in Islam • Edward Said • egyptians • Epistemology • Ernest Renan • ethnography • etymology • exploration • father of lies • fellow • Gender Role • Globalization • God • grammar • Hadith • Herodotus • Homelessness • homesickness • Ibn Battuta • Ibn Jubayr • imperialism • infidel • Islam • Islamic culture • Islamism • Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani • James Mill • Jews • Kafir • Literature • Loyalty • Madhhab • Memoir • Modernity • Montesquieu • Morality • Muhammad • Muslim • Muslim world • narrative • nation state • of education • Orientalism • Parochialism • Persian Letters • Philosopher • Philosophy • Political Philosophy • Politics • Prejudice • Publication • qadi • Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study • Religion • Religious Science • rhetoric • Rihla • Routledge • Scythia • Scythians • sensibility • Sharia • skepticism • Slavery • Social Science • Subjectivity • Sufism • Suggestion • Sunni Islam • Superiority (short story) • theory • The Other Hand • The Spirit of the Laws • Tourism • Travel Literature • treatise • Wellesley College • Western Culture • Western World • Women in Islam • World • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2749-3 / 1400827493
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2749-7 / 9781400827497