{"product_id":"journeys-to-the-other-shore-muslim-and-western-travelers-in-search-of-knowledge-9780691138404","title":"Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobility is the jihadi who travels not to learn but to destroy. \u003ci\u003eJourneys to the Other Shore\u003c\/i\u003e challenges these stereotypes by charting the common ways in which Muslim and Western travelers negotiate the dislocation of travel to unfamiliar and strange worlds. In Roxanne Euben's groundbreaking excursion across cultures, geography, history, genre, and genders, travel signifies not only a physical movement across lands and cultures, but also an imaginative journey in which wonder about those who live differently makes it possible to see the world differently. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta, the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocqueville's journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifa'a Rafi' al-Tahtawi, and Montesquieu's novel \u003ci\u003ePersian Letters\u003c\/i\u003e meets with the memoir of an East African princess, Sayyida Salme. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown, the quest to understand foreign cultures, critical distance from one's own world, and the desire to remake the foreign into the familiar are not the monopoly of any single civilization or epoch. Euben demonstrates that the fluidity of identities, cultures, and borders associated with our postcolonial, globalized world has a long history--one shaped not only by Western power but also by an Islamic ethos of travel in search of knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roxanne L. Euben\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.88h x 6.26w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691138404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoxanne L. Euben\u003c\/b\u003e is the Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eEnemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087145742451,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_dae54be2-b89f-4203-ac64-2b4c50f25ca1.jpg?v=1652538860","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/journeys-to-the-other-shore-muslim-and-western-travelers-in-search-of-knowledge-9780691138404","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}