Traveling Through Text
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Abd Al Mumin
Author_Elka Weber
authority in travel literature
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comparative pilgrimage studies
empirical religious experience
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Felix Fabri
Fulk Nerra
Holy Man
Home Town
ibn
Ibn Battuta
Ibn Jubayr
Ibn Juzayy
interfaith textual analysis
Jacques De Vitry
John Poloner
jubayr
Lot's Wife
Ludolph Von Suchem
medieval pilgrimage account methodology
medieval religious travel
Medieval Travel Writing
Pole Star
Qiryat Arba
sacred site narratives
Young Men
Zayd Ibn Thabit
Product details
- ISBN 9780415975773
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Traveling through Text compares religious ravel writing by Muslims, Christians and Jews in later Middle Ages. This comparative approach allows us to see that writers in all three religious communities used travel writing in the same way, to shape the perceptions of their readers by asserting the author's authority. The central paradox of religious travel writing is that the travel writer reads about a place, usually in a sacred text, decide to supplement the reading with the empirical experience of visiting and describing the place, and the creates his own descriptive text. But in writing this new book, and in letting his readers know his authorial authority, the travel writer himself is daring the reader to challenge the new text. Is a book ever enough? For societies that value their sacred texts, this question is a challenge. But it is a challenge posed by writers who live firmly in the religious tradition.
A graduate of New York University's Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Elka Weber has taught at a number of universities. She is currently researching travel and notions of place in the writings of medieval Jews. She recently contributed a chapter, Sharing the Sites:Medieval Jewish Travelers to the Land of Israel to Rosamund Allen, ed, Eastward Bound: travel and travellers1050-1550, , 2004.
