Princeton University Press, Date: 2008-07-01. Paperback. Used: Good. 2008. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691138400 9780691138404 [US]

Princeton University Press, Date: 2008-07-01. Paperback. Used:Good. 2008. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691138400 9780691138404 [US]

Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 2008. Paperback. New. 328 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. 2008. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691138400 9780691138404 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691138400, ISBN13: 9780691138404, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. The contemporary world is 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. This book challenges these stereotypes.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0691138400, ISBN13: 9780691138404, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 ...
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ISBN10: 0691138400, ISBN13: 9780691138404, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover The contemporary world is 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. This book challenges these stereotypes. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; JHMC; JPA; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 538. . 2008. Paperback. . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2008]