Trickster Travels A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

Name: Trickster Travels A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
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ISBN: 9780809094349

ISBN-10: 0809094347

ISBN-13: 9780809094349

Edition: 2006

Authors: Natalie Zemon Davis, Natalie Z. Davis

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An engrossing study of Leo Africanus and his famous book, which introduced Africa to European readers nbsp; Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in Europe (in 1550). He had been captured by Christian pirates in the Mediterranean and imprisoned by the pope, then released, baptized, and allowed a European life of scholarship as the Christian writer Giovanni Leone. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary,…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 435
Size: 6.44" wide x 9.44" long x 1.37" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Note on Transliteration and Dates


Introduction: Crossings



Living in the Land of Islam



Living in the Land of War



Writing in Italy



Between Africa and Europe



Conceiving Africa



Between Islam and Christianity



Curiosity and Connections



Translation, Transmission, and Distance



The Return


Epilogue: Affinities


Notes


Glossary of Arabic Words


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index