Idrissi Alami, Ahmed.
Mutual othering Islam, modernity, and the politics of cross-cultural encounters in pre-colonial Moroccan and European travel writing / [electronic resource] : Ahmed Idrissi Alami. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013. - xi, 260 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: concepts of modernity -- Literary depictions of the Moor, travel writing and the Maghreb -- The rihla to Europe: transcultural Islam and the Islamization of modernity -- Visions of Morocco and its pre-modernity in French travel writing -- Slavery, racism and the rhetoric of modernity in British travel writing -- Conclusions and contemporary debates.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.--Morocco
Travelers' writings, Arabic--History and criticism.--Europe
European prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Arabic prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
East and West in literature.
Islam in literature.
Ethnology in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Morocco--Description and travel.
Europe--Description and travel.
Electronic books.
DT309 / .I48 2013eb
916.404/3
Mutual othering Islam, modernity, and the politics of cross-cultural encounters in pre-colonial Moroccan and European travel writing / [electronic resource] : Ahmed Idrissi Alami. - Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013. - xi, 260 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: concepts of modernity -- Literary depictions of the Moor, travel writing and the Maghreb -- The rihla to Europe: transcultural Islam and the Islamization of modernity -- Visions of Morocco and its pre-modernity in French travel writing -- Slavery, racism and the rhetoric of modernity in British travel writing -- Conclusions and contemporary debates.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.--Morocco
Travelers' writings, Arabic--History and criticism.--Europe
European prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Arabic prose literature--History and criticism.--19th century
East and West in literature.
Islam in literature.
Ethnology in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Morocco--Description and travel.
Europe--Description and travel.
Electronic books.
DT309 / .I48 2013eb
916.404/3