{"product_id":"journeys-to-the-other-shore-muslim-and-western-travelers-in-search-of-knowledge-princeton-studies-in-muslim-politics-9780691127217","title":"Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)","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. Journeys to the Other Shore 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 Eubens 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.  In the book we meet not only Herodotus but also Ibn Battuta  the fourteenth-century Moroccan traveler. Tocquevilles journeys are set against a five-year sojourn in nineteenth-century Paris by the Egyptian writer and translator Rifaa Rafi al-Tahtawi  and Montesquieus novel Persian Letters meets with the memoir of an East African princess  Sayyida Salme.  This extraordinary book shows that curiosity about the unknown  the quest to understand foreign cultures  critical distance from ones 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652314193973,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691127212","price":138.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691127217.jpg?v=1781851119","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/journeys-to-the-other-shore-muslim-and-western-travelers-in-search-of-knowledge-princeton-studies-in-muslim-politics-9780691127217","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}