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Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages
Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages, In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a <i>rihla</i>, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North , Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages has a rating of 5 stars
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  • Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages
  • Written by author Houari Touati
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, August 2010
  • In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North
  • In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and
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Preface to the English-Language Edition (2010)

Acknowledgments (2000)

Introduction

Chapter 1: Invitation to the Voyage

            The ‘ilm, an Onomastic Emblem

            A Catastrophic Theory of Knowledge

            The Genealogical Structure of Knowledge

Chapter 2: The School of the Desert

            Linguists and Bedouins

            The Stay in the Desert

            A Geography of Pure Language

            A Theory of the Stay in the Desert

Chapter 3: The Price of Travel

            Financing a Voyage

            Paying a Personal Price

            Terminus

Chapter 4: Autopsy of a Gaze

            The Eye of the Popeyed Man

            A Geographer in His Study

            The Experience of the Voyage

            A Clinical Look at Muslim Verismo

            Muqaddasi, Strabo, and Greek Science

Chapter 5: Attaining God

            The Theory of the Errant Life

            Topographical Writing

            Sufism as a Crossing of the Desert

            The Voyage to Syria

            Entering into the Desert

            Society and Its Obverse

Chapter 6: Going to the Borderlands

            The Ulemas and Jihad

            An Ideology of Combat

            Jihad and Hagiography

Chapter 7: Writing the Voyage

            Narrating an Absence

            The Extraordinary in the Voyage

            The Travel Letter

            An Art of Travel

            A Return to the Travel Narrative

Conclusion: The Journey to the End of the Same

Chronological List of Principal Travel Accounts

Glossary

Bibliography

Index


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