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Age of Enlightenment
Alexis de Tocqueville
Ambivalence
Arabs
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Awareness
Barbarian
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Civilization
Colonialism
Cosmopolitanism
Critical distance
Cross-cultural
Deed
Democracy in America
Despotism
Edward Said
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Ernest Renan
Ethnography
Etymology
Exploration
Fellow
Globalization
God
Grammar
Hadith
Herodotus
Ibn Battuta
Imperialism
Infidel
Islam
Islamism
Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
Jews
Literature
Loyalty
Memoir
Modernity
Montesquieu
Morality
Muhammad
Muslim
Muslim world
Narrative
Nation state
Orientalism
Parochialism
Persian Letters
Philosopher
Philosophy
Political philosophy
Politics
Prejudice
Qadi
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Religion
Rhetoric
Rihla
Routledge
Sensibility
Sharia
Skepticism
Slavery
Sufism
Sunni Islam
Superiority (short story)
Tourism
Travel literature
Wellesley College
Western culture
Western world
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691138404
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2008
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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).
