Mutual othering [electronic resource] : Islam, modernity, and the politics of cross-cultural encounters in pre-colonial Moroccan and European travel writing / Ahmed Idrissi Alami.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013.Description: xi, 260 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 916.404/3 23
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  • DT309 .I48 2013eb
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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