Reviews for Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 1845-1846. The Voyage of Muhammad As-Saffar

The average rating for Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 1845-1846. The Voyage of Muhammad As-Saffar based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-05-01 00:00:00 Jaycee Conde Living in Sicilia I'm learning Arabic origins of Italian terms/names. A lot of swapping goes on btwn languages & the translation of As-Saffar's text reveals just that. My copy of the book is from the early 1990s and there is no mention of its genre as Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies. It's genre is travel/history. Interesting to read this Moroccan-French comparison from a Maghribian Muslim POV. I should have read this book in 1993 and there's no way I'd have appreciated it like I do now.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-22 00:00:00 Kenneth W Gardner I enjoy reading the travel logs of historic travelers. It is fascinating to see what they thought of Western society. As-Saffar is perhaps the most easily read travel log I have encountered. 3.5