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FMHContents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Spelling Chapter 1: Frontiers: Walls and Windows-Some Reflections of Travel Narratives Chapter 2: Traveling Theorists and Translating Practices Theory and Theoria "Seeing the Entire World as a Foreign Land" Exposures and Closures Islam, Travel, and talab al-{{ayn}}ilm The Double-Edged Nature of Travel Travel as Translation Chapter 3: Liars, Travelers, Theorists-Herodotus and Ibn Battuta Herodotus Ibn Battuta Conclusion Chapter 4: Travel in Search of Practical Wisdom: The Modern Theoriai of al-Tahtawi and Tocqueville Authorizing Autopsy Travels across Time and Space Multiple Mediations Conclusion Chapter 5: Gender, Genre, and Travel: Montesquieu and Sayyida Salme Montesquieu's Persian Letters Sayyida Salme's Memoirs Conclusion Chapter 6: Cosmopolitanisms Past and Present, Islamic and Western Notes Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Travel, Medieval.
Voyages and travels.
Travelers -- Arab countries.
Travelers -- Europe.
East and West.